Patron saint festival In 300 days
Saint Lawrence, patron of the land of the Valley Museum
📅 Every year, on 10 August
Zogno celebrates Saint Lawrence on 10 August, in the church dedicated to him.
Zogno lies in the lower Brembana valley, on a slope between Monte Zucco and a bend of the Brembo, with most of the other settlements across the river. Late twelfth-century documents already record it as a rural commune, and a parchment of the Astino monastery dated 1220 names Giovanni Geze as consul of Zogno. The fifteenth-century church of San Lorenzo stands on the ruins of the medieval Guelph castle, pulled down by the Visconti.
The arms show the saint with his iron gridiron and, on a red chief, a gold lily borrowed from the Sonzogni, a family from the place. In 1928 six neighbouring communes were merged in, among them Poscante, where Vincenzo Pacchiana was born in 1773: the brigand known as Pacì Paciana, who robbed the rich for the poor and whom his contemporaries called king of the road and king of the mountain.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Zogno, but an easy day trip away.
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.