Patron saint festival In 218 days
Feast of Saint Zeno
📅 Every year, on 21 May
On 21 May Caino, a municipality of 2,079 inhabitants in the province of Brescia, celebrates its patron Saint Zeno, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
Caino has the name of Adam's son, but its history begins with a different god. The first Christian place of worship in the Valle del Garza is the pieve della Mitria, dating from 1039, and it stands over an earlier building dedicated to the pagan cult of Mithras: the name of the church is all that is left of the god. The valley, for that matter, was inhabited as early as the middle Palaeolithic, and the conversion to Christianity goes back to the fourth century.
On 20 December 1760 the bishop of Brescia granted the parish of Caino the title of archpriestship, and its priests that of archpriest: not for the number of souls, but for the prestige and the beauty of the church of San Zenone, which holds an altarpiece by Cignaroli. The comune had less luck: in 1928 it was annexed to Nave, and it became autonomous again only on the first of April 1955.
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Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Mira · 9.2 km The sanctuary of the Madonna Mora at Borbiago di Mira, with Andrea Briosco's statue and Diziani's great canvas. Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena 📍 Mira · 10 km The parish church of Oriago, with a canvas attributed to Titian's brother and a bell tower with octagonal belfry. Chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo in Bosco 📍 Mira · 10 km The church of Bosco Grande in Mira, rebuilt in the twentieth century beside its sixteenth-century bell tower. Villa Foscari 📍 Venice · 13 km Palladio's Malcontenta on the Brenta: a temple of brick disguised as stone, reached by boat. Duomo di San Giovanni Battista 📍 Mira · 12 km The late-Romanesque church of Gambarare, with a Callido organ and almost five centuries of priests chosen locally. ponte della Libertà 📍 Venice · 17 km The four-kilometre bridge with which Venice, in 1846, stopped being an island: the lagoon crossing.