Patron saint festival In 69 days
Saint Victoria, winter patron of Spongano
📅 Every year, on 23 December
Spongano celebrates Saint Victoria a second time on 23 December.
The old coat of arms had, under three stars, two sponges with an upright reed stem between them: the sponges for the swallow holes that drink the rainwater, the reed for the ground where water stands. The figure, however, embarrassed those who looked at it, and in 1997 the comune had to remake it: now there is only one sponge.
In the countryside there are a dolmen called Piedi Grandi and three menhirs: one of the three, in 1607, was turned into an Osanna. The mother church is of 1771, but the side aisles are of the eighteen hundreds: the right one was paid for by the people of the village, the left one by baron Bacile di Castiglione.
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Patron saint festival In 296 days
Saint Victoria, patron since the 1600s
📅 Every year, from 7 to 9 August, patron since the 1600s
Spongano celebrates Saint Victoria from 7 to 9 August. Her patronage was introduced in the second half of the 17th century, with the arrival of the Baron Bacile family from the Marche.
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Near Spongano
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Spongano, but an easy day trip away.
Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Mira · 9.2 km The sanctuary of the Madonna Mora at Borbiago di Mira, with Andrea Briosco's statue and Diziani's great canvas. Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena 📍 Mira · 10 km The parish church of Oriago, with a canvas attributed to Titian's brother and a bell tower with octagonal belfry. Chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo in Bosco 📍 Mira · 10 km The church of Bosco Grande in Mira, rebuilt in the twentieth century beside its sixteenth-century bell tower. Villa Foscari 📍 Venice · 13 km Palladio's Malcontenta on the Brenta: a temple of brick disguised as stone, reached by boat. Duomo di San Giovanni Battista 📍 Mira · 12 km The late-Romanesque church of Gambarare, with a Callido organ and almost five centuries of priests chosen locally. ponte della Libertà 📍 Venice · 17 km The four-kilometre bridge with which Venice, in 1846, stopped being an island: the lagoon crossing.