The name may come from the gens Statia or from statio, a stopping place: Roman Libarna was not far off. In 1155 the soldiers of Frederick Barbarossa sacked the village and burned the castle, and the people fled up the mountain above it.
Up there, so the story goes, they called on the Virgin and were spared; a chapel recorded the deliverance, then it was forgotten. In 1620, fleeing French troops, a deaf-mute girl saw a dove settle on a hawthorn bush: the plant flowered out of season and she got her speech back. The sanctuary was begun in 1633, its high altar on the spot of the hawthorn, and the mountain has been Spineto ever since.
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📅 Every year, on 23 April; an end-of-summer fair is held in early September in the hamlet of Vargo
Stazzano celebrates Saint George on 23 April, in the church dedicated to him; other yearly events include the Sagra del Polletto in June and, in early September, an end-of-summer fair in the hamlet of Vargo.
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Outside Stazzano, but an easy day trip away.
