Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel
📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Valbrevenna celebrates Saint Michael the Archangel; the municipality also preserves the sanctuary of Nostra Signora dell'Acqua.
As a municipality Valbrevenna was born late, in 1896: before that the villages of the valley belonged to Savignone, Casella and Montoggio. Its coat of arms carries six mountains and seven gold crosses, one for each parish: five are in the archdiocese of Genoa and two in the diocese of Tortona.
People lived on chestnuts — dried and milled into flour — and on seasonal work: the men as farm hands in Piedmont and Lombardy, the women in the rice fields around Vercelli. Then they left for Argentina, Chile, Peru. Of the three thousand who lived here when the municipality was founded, six hundred were left by the nineteen-seventies. The population is 812.
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Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.