Patron saint festival In 189 days
Saint George, patron of the land of Alpe Veglia and Alpe Devero
📅 Every year, on 23 April
Varzo celebrates Saint George on 23 April, in the church dedicated to him.
The place is not one village but fifty-three clusters of houses scattered over the morainic terraces of the Val Divedro, some of them emptied of people, others lived in only during the months of transhumance. In the old centre a watchtower survives, already mentioned in the fourteenth century, part of a complex where merchants stopped to pay their tolls.
The patron is Saint George, and his legend has a version of its own here: the horse carrying him to paradise, in the last four steps before rising to heaven, set its hooves on four exact spots, and on those spots four votive shrines were raised.
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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.