Patron saint festival In 299 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Sonico, a municipality of 1,270 inhabitants in the province of Brescia, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
In the village assemblies of Sonico it was the Antichi Originari who ruled: the heads of the native households, the only ones allowed to vote. Nobles, priests and outsiders were excluded, even those who had lived in the village for generations. Their surnames were written down for the first time in the Book of Souls of 1597, and there are some forty of them.
On the bell tower of the sanctuary of Pradella hangs the oldest bell in the Val Camonica, cast in 1421. The nickname of the inhabitants is Gós, goitre, and it may be no accident that the village had a little church of San Gottardo, whose cult was invoked against gout. A Roman bridge came to light after the flood of 1960.
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Chiesa di Sant'Antonio di Padova 📍 San Benedetto del Tronto · 22 km The church of Sant'Antonio in San Benedetto del Tronto, with its mosaic of the sermon to the fish. Santuario della Madonna delle Grazie 📍 Teramo · 23 km Shrine of Teramo's patroness by Porta Madonna: gilded fifteenth-century statue, twelfth-century cloister. Palazzina Azzurra 📍 San Benedetto del Tronto · 23 km The Rationalist summer dance pavilion of San Benedetto del Tronto, now an exhibition space. Chiesa di Sant'Anna dei Pompetti 📍 Teramo · 23 km Remains of Teramo's ancient cathedral in piazza Sant'Anna: an early Christian three-nave church on a Roman insula. Torre dei Gualtieri 📍 San Benedetto del Tronto · 23 km The medieval keep of the Paese Alto of San Benedetto del Tronto, with a viewing terrace over the Riviera. Chiesa di Sant'Agostino 📍 Teramo · 23 km Augustinian church in Teramo from which the Good Friday Procession of the Desolata starts; closed since the 2009 quake.