Patron saint festival In 26 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Precenicco celebrates its patron Saint Martin; the municipal territory includes the Riserva naturale regionale delle Foci dello Stella.
Few villages have changed hands in so varied a way. In the thirteenth century the counts of Gorizia gave Precenicco to the Teutonic Order, which held it for four hundred years; in 1623 the Jesuits took over; at the end of the eighteenth century the lordship was bought by Antonio Cassis Faraone, a merchant of Syrian origin whom Joseph II had made a count of the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1835 the estate passed to the Hierschel de Minerbi, a Trieste family, who had a residence built here to a design by Giuseppe Jappelli, the architect of the Pedrocchi in Padua. The village lies on the last stretch of the Stella, just before the river opens into the lagoon: the Foci dello Stella nature reserve begins here, and the parish church of San Martino is seventeenth-century.
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