Patron saint festival In 56 days
Saint Syrus the Bishop, patron of Misinto
📅 Every year, on 9 December
Misinto celebrates Saint Syrus the Bishop on 9 December, in the church dedicated to him.
The name of Misinto is said to come from the Latin Locus Medius Cinctus, the place in the middle, girdled: a clearing surrounded by woods, which is more or less what the village still is today, with the Groane Park lying to the east of it. In the documents it has been Misente, Misentum, Misentis, and between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries also Mixintum, but only in papers written outside the village; the present form takes over in all documents from about 1790.
With Lazzate, the neighbouring comune, the relationship has swung back and forth: in the Napoleonic period it was Misinto that was attached to Lazzate, but after the unification of Italy the roles were reversed, and in 1869 it was Misinto that annexed Lazzate, which regained its independence only in 1905. In 2022, while digging to redo the sewers, ruins came to light that looked Roman: on closer inspection, an archaeologist established, they were the remains of the old municipal aqueduct.
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Near Misinto
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Misinto, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.