Patron saint festival In 25 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Fanna celebrates its patron Saint Martin; the municipal territory is also home to the Santuario della Madonna di Strada.
A document of 924 carries the signum Antonii de Fanas: it is the first time the name appears, and its origin remains uncertain — perhaps from the Latin fana, the sacred places, while the gens Fannia and the Bona Dea are explanations without foundation. Until the second half of the sixteenth century the village was one thing with Cavasso Nuovo: they were called Fanna di Sotto and Fanna di Sopra.
In 1976 the Friuli earthquake killed one person here. The western Friulian spoken in the village is among the best described on the right bank of the Tagliamento, and not by chance: Vittorio Cadel wrote it, as Pasolini did at Casarsa, and his pages made it possible to define the variety. Today Fanna presents itself as the village of the old apples, and its public signs are also in Friulian.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Fanna, but an easy day trip away.
abbazia di Santa Maria al Porale 📍 Ronco Scrivia · 9.9 km Founded by Cistercians in 1208 for pilgrims on the Via Postumia, today a chapel with a fresco of 1446. Castello di Francavilla Bisio 📍 Francavilla Bisio · 10 km The medieval castle of Francavilla Bisio: towers, moat and six centuries of Spinola, Grillo and Guasco. Castello di Lercaro 📍 Ovada · 11 km A Lercaro fortified villa of 1570, given to the town in 1872 as a hospice, now a ruin chiesa di Nostra Signora Assunta 📍 Ovada · 12 km Sober baroque inspired by Genoa, with twin bell towers and Pietro Ivaldi's vault. chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Ovada · 12 km Founded by Dominicans in 1481, with a high altar brought from Genoa in 1690 chiesa dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Ovada · 12 km A plague vow of 1631, first stone in 1640, and an almost total rebuild after the 1935 fire