Patron saint festival In 250 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Avelengo, a municipality of 739 inhabitants in the province of Bolzano, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
The Haflinger horse takes its name from here: Avelengo, which in German is Hafling, and in German the breed is indeed called Haflinger. The village's name is already read in 1170 as Hafningen and comes from hafele, the small farmstead; by its German form it is, along with Hône, one of only two Italian municipalities whose name begins with H.
The village lies on a plateau above Merano and is made of scattered farmsteads around the church, as they built in the time of the Bavarian settlement; the single holdings are already listed in the land register of the counts of Tyrol of 1288. In 1931 Avelengo was merged into Merano and became a municipality again in 1957. In the coat of arms, granted in 1967, there are the horse, the mountain and the pine.
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Places to see within 25 km
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chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Norcia · 8.6 km Hilltop church of Campi Vecchio, destroyed in the 26 October 2016 earthquake; today a place of memory. chiesa di San Salvatore 📍 Norcia · 8.7 km Historic Romanesque church near Norcia built over a Roman temple, largely destroyed in the 2016 earthquakes. chiesa di Sant'Andrea 📍 Norcia · 8.7 km Campi's fourteenth-century parish church, badly hit in 2016; its medieval treasures now rest in Spoleto. chiesa della Madonna Bianca 📍 Norcia · 11 km A 14th-century church near Norcia, famous for its marble relief of the Madonna Bianca by Francesco di Simone Ferrucci. Sito archeologico di Forca d'Ancarano 📍 Norcia · 13 km An ancient Italic mountain sanctuary near Norcia, used from the 6th century BC as a sacred crossroads. basilica di San Benedetto 📍 Norcia · 15 km Built over the birthplace of Saints Benedict and Scholastica, this historic Norcia basilica reopened in October 2025.