The name may come from two opposite directions. From Vectius, a Roman nobleman of a Sabine family who had holdings here; or from the Ligurian Vect-iani, «peak of Janus», and in that case it would be older than the Roman conquest and than the colony of Luni itself.
Livy, telling of the war against the Apuani, describes the country around the Magra as full of castra and fortifications, and Vezzano probably grew out of one of those posts, on the pass linking the gulf of La Spezia to the valley. On the hill opposite is Bolano, and the two names hold together: Vettius and Bolanus were two Roman families that ended up merging. There are 7,391 residents.
chiesa dei Santi Sebastiano e Maria Assunta · chiesa di Santa Maria · ex chiesa di San Siro and 2 more
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Next up: The Madonna del Molinello and the apparition of 1523, Thursday 3 June
Nearest airport: Pisa Galilei, 65 km away
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📅 Every year, on 3 June
On 3 June Vezzano Ligure celebrates the Madonna del Molinello in the sanctuary that stands where, according to tradition, the Virgin appeared in 1523 to villager Caterina del Rosso during the plague.
chiesa dei Santi Sebastiano e Maria Assunta Wanted by two Zacchia cardinals, it keeps a Pietà by Anton Maria Maragliano. 
chiesa di Santa Maria A white marble sarcophagus surfaced under the high altar of this Romanesque hall church. 
ex chiesa di San Siro In 1880 a new road took half the church away; the bell tower is what is left. 
Castello di Vezzano Superiore Ruins of the tenth-century stronghold that watched the pass between gulf and Magra valley. 
torre pentagonale A twelfth-century pentagonal tower, 15 metres tall, its door set high off the ground. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Vezzano Ligure, but an easy day trip away.
