Patron saint festival In 298 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Vaprio d'Agogna, a municipality of 1,015 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
The name comes from the Gaulish Wabero, a narrow valley with a sunken stream, a root shared with Vaprio d'Adda, Belgian Wavre and French Vabre. Until 1863 the village was simply Vaprio; the longer name came by royal decree, to tell the two apart.
The castle, more fortified house than stronghold, went up around 1220 with the old parish church inside its walls. Finding it in a wretched state, the bishop of Novara had it pulled down: the new church outside was begun in 1601 and consecrated almost a hundred years later, long enough for neighbours to speak of building the church of Vaprio.
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Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Rovigo · 20 km The church of San Domenico in Rovigo, born with a sixteenth-century hospital, with no façade and Baroque altars. Duomo di Rovigo 📍 Rovigo · 20 km Rovigo cathedral, dedicated to Saint Stephen, with its never-finished façade and works by Palma the Younger. Palazzo Roverella 📍 Rovigo · 20 km Rovigo's Renaissance palace with the Concordi gallery: Bellini, Palma the Elder, Tiepolo and major exhibitions. Chiesa dei Santi Francesco e Giustina 📍 Rovigo · 20 km Franciscan church in Rovigo, Gothic in origin and neoclassical today, with a Pietà by Tullio Lombardo. Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Sabbioni 📍 Rovigo · 21 km The church of Santa Maria dei Sabbioni in Rovigo, Romanesque-Gothic, now inside the town cemetery.