Patron saint festival In 50 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Verano celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas, to whom the church of this town overlooking Merano is dedicated.
The name is older than the village: Veran appears in 1186 and comes from the Latin name Ferius, «Ferio's land», after an owner of whom nothing else survives. A century later the land register of Meinhard II of Tyrol-Gorizia records the plateau as ground sown with grain, and that grain stayed in the coat of arms drawn in 1967: the gold band is the cereal fields, the red the porphyry that crops out everywhere, the yoke the cattle-breeding of the time.
Until 1958 people came up on foot or by cart; then arrived the cable car from Postal, renewed twice since, which brought the plateau within a few minutes of the valley floor. The village and the hamlet of Eschio remain almost entirely German-speaking, with the farmsteads set around the parish church of San Nicolò.
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Chiesa di Santa Croce 📍 Treviso · 9.3 km Former church of the San Leonardo hospital in Treviso, with the 1750 Nacchini organ and canvases by Orioli. Chiesa di San Gaetano 📍 Treviso · 9.4 km Former church of the Knights of St John in Treviso, now a seat of the Museo nazionale Collezione Salce. Chiesa di San Vito 📍 Treviso · 9.7 km Church in central Treviso attested from 981, with a frescoed early medieval apse and a sixteenth-century building. Porta San Tomaso 📍 Treviso · 9.7 km Gate of Treviso's sixteenth-century walls, built in ten months in 1518 as a triumphal arch in Istrian stone. Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Treviso · 9.8 km Minor basilica in central Treviso, the Madonna Grande, saved from demolition in 1509 by the townspeople. Porta Santi Quaranta 📍 Treviso · 10 km Sixteenth-century gate of Treviso, of 1516, with the lion of Saint Mark and a double name on the arch.