Patron saint festival In 93 days
Feast of Saint Anthony the Abbot
📅 Every year, on 17 January
On 17 January Pietra de' Giorgi celebrates its patron Saint Anthony the Abbot; the town preserves the Castello di Pietra de' Giorgi.
Pietra de' Giorgi has 915 inhabitants on a hill of the Oltrepò looking down on the plain. The name is a chain of owners: the Pietra, the stone, has been there from the start — it appears in 1164, in the diploma with which Frederick Barbarossa put half the Oltrepò under Pavia — then came the Sannazzaro, Guelphs, who in 1277 withstood a siege by the Ghibellines here; in 1405 the fief passed to the Beccaria and the village was called Preda Beccaria; and when at the beginning of the seventeenth century that line too died out, it was bought by the Giorgi di Vistarino, who left it the name it carries today.
Inside the fief of Pietra there was also another comune, Predalino: a castle in the northern part of today's village, whose territory was not one continuous piece but a set of lands scattered like leopard spots inside Pietra's own. It was suppressed in the eighteenth century. In 1818 came instead Pecorara, which had already swallowed the tiny comune of Montevico, and which had nothing to do with Pietra: it had always been a fief of Broni.
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chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.