Patron saint festival In 52 days
Saint Nicholas, patron of Sorano
📅 Every year, on 6 December
Sorano celebrates Saint Nicholas on 6 December, in the collegiate church dedicated to him.
The town stands on a spur of tuff above the Lente, and that made it hard to take: the Sienese laid siege to the fortress several times through the fifteenth century and only succeeded in 1417. In 1552 Niccolò IV Orsini rebuilt it from scratch, with two corner bastions and a curtain wall between them.
The arms show a castle of seven golden towers on silver. The seven are probably a misreading: on the older shield there were three towers with four Guelph merlons between them, which somebody counted as towers too. And the golden cross above took the place of the red rose of the Orsini, the lords of the place.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Sorano, 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.