Patron saint festival In 53 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Frascaro celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
The name probably comes from frasca, a leafy branch: the first houses likely stood against the Cerreta wood. At Isola Grande, digging for a new road turned up what was almost certainly a fifth- or sixth-century barbarian village; the skeletons had skull deformations common among the tribes of eastern Germania.
The first sure mention is from 1192: two notarial loan deeds; in one a Bonizzone of Frascaro lends eight lire interest-free, repayable within the year. In 1486 the men of Gamondio shared that wood out among some fifty families. From far off the parish church of San Nicolao shows a yellow bell tower, a clock and a slate spire.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Frascaro, 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.