Patron saint festival In 46 days
Feast of Saint Andrew
📅 Every year, on 30 November
On 30 November Venzone celebrates its patron Saint Andrew; the town hosts the Tiere Motus museum, dedicated to the 1976 earthquake and reconstruction.
The walls were begun in 1258 by Glizoio di Mels: two rings one inside the other, a moat fed by the torrent, a hexagonal plan with unequal sides, walls eight metres high anchored to fifteen towers. The village appears for the first time in 923. In 1965 the state declared it a national monument.
Eleven years later, the earthquake of 1976 almost razed it. It has been rebuilt as it was, stone by stone, and has become the model of the Friuli reconstruction. The village has four names: Venzone in Italian, Vençon in Friulian, Pušja vas in Slovene and Peuscheldorf in German, and the last is a translation of the Slovene one, made around the year one thousand.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Venzone, but an easy day trip away.
certosa di Parma 📍 Parma · 8.3 km The charterhouse of Stendhal's title, now a police school and rarely open. Parma Baptistery 📍 Parma · 11 km Benedetto Antelami’s pink marble masterpiece, a European landmark bridging Romanesque and Gothic design in Parma. arco di San Lazzaro 📍 Parma · 9.8 km Arch of San Lazzaro in Parma, built in 1628 on via Emilia Est, restored in 2005. chiesa di San Sepolcro 📍 Parma · 11 km The Holy Sepulchre canons' church on the via Emilia, with a coffered ceiling. abbazia di San Giovanni Evangelista 📍 Parma · 11 km Correggio's second dome in Parma, and the Benedictine pharmacy with its jars in rows. teatro Farnese 📍 Parma · 12 km The Farnese wooden theatre in the Pilotta, inaugurated with a naval battle in the stalls.