Patron saint festival In 255 days
Feast of Saint Vigilius
📅 Every year, on 26 June
On 26 June Cevo, a municipality of 930 inhabitants in the province of Brescia, celebrates its patron Saint Vigilius.
Cevo has 930 inhabitants on top of the Androla ridge, in the Valsaviore, inside the Adamello park. It is a village that has burned twice. The first time on 22 April 1644, when lightning set fire to it and destroyed almost all of it. The second on 3 July 1944, and that time the fire was set on purpose: after the armistice not one of the young men of Cevo had turned up for the call-up of the Republic of Salò, and on the mountains above the village the fifty-fourth Garibaldi brigade had been formed.
That day about a thousand republican troops surrounded the village in a pincer movement, shielding themselves with some of the women of Cevo, and set fire to the roofs with incendiary bottles. The fire destroyed 151 houses and damaged or looted others; six people were killed, and out of about twelve hundred inhabitants eight hundred were left without a roof. In 1992 the Republic gave Cevo the bronze medal for military valour for the sacrifices of its people.
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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.