Patron saint festival In 170 days
Saint Francis of Paola, patron of April
📅 Every year, on 2 April
Stornarella celebrates Saint Francis of Paola on 2 April. The town's other patron, Mary Most Holy of the Star, is celebrated on 5 August.
Seventy-three families were sent here in 1774, and we know exactly what each of them got: a house, a patch of pasture, a pair of oxen and ten versure of land, against a rent of eighteen ducats. The villages of the Cinque reali siti made a poor start and became comuni only under Joseph Bonaparte: Stornarella on the first of May 1808.
Of the Jesuits' residence, which farmed the great estate around, there remains the seventeenth-century chapel out of which the parish church grew: the two side aisles and the dome are of the nineteenth century. In the apse hangs a canvas of 1614 copying the Salus populi romani of Santa Maria Maggiore, and at the Virgin's feet stand Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier. Before all this, the plain was crossed by the sheep tracks of the transhumance.
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Patron saint festival In 295 days
Mary Most Holy of the Star, patron of August
📅 Every year, on 5 August
Stornarella celebrates Mary Most Holy of the Star on 5 August, in the church dedicated to her. The town's other patron, Saint Francis of Paola, is celebrated on 2 April.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Stornarella, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 12 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. basilica cattedrale di San Martino 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's cathedral, rebuilt by Tullio Lombardo in the sixteenth century, with Juvarra's bell tower. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 14 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 16 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 16 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt.