Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Capovalle, a municipality of 388 inhabitants in the province of Brescia, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
Until 1907 the village was called Hano; then a royal decree changed the name, because the old one had been judged «transparent and vulgar». Its three quarters are called Zumiè, Vico and Viè, and two of those names say the same thing: village, and crossing of roads. And indeed this was a place people passed through, between the Valle Sabbia, the Garda and the Trentino.
In a document of 1200 the people of Val Vestino carry one beam as far as the boundary bridge, and the people of Hano take it up and carry it on, to Vobarno, to repair the castle. Others passed through too: in November 1526 twenty thousand landsknechts on their way to Rome. And in June 1848 Luciano Manara wrote from here: «my palace is a sheep stall».
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 200 m Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 2.8 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. viadotto Torrente Sori 📍 Sori · 5.5 km 105 metres above the valley: the Dywidag cantilever system made its Italian debut here in 1966. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Bargagli · 6.0 km Traso's parish church, dedicated to Milan's bishop in Genoese country. chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 5.9 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 6.1 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down