Patron saint festival
Feast of the Holy Name of Mary
📅 Every year, on 14 September
On 14 September Peveragno celebrates the Holy Name of Mary; the town also holds a fair documented since 1396, when the Princes of Acaja confirmed its privileges.
Peveragno took the place of another village. The first was called Forfice, from the valley that forks into two narrower ones because of a spur of the Bisalta: forfex, the scissors. It stood a couple of kilometres away, and of it there remain the ruins of the castrum, part of the moat and a chapel.
The name Peveragno appears in a deed of 1299, and Forfice is named for the last time in 1356: perhaps the plague, perhaps only its awkward site. In the avenue of Remembrance every plane tree is a man fallen in the First World War, and a square carries the name of the thirty men seized and killed in reprisal on a market Monday in 1944.
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