Patron saint festival In 281 days
Saint James, patron of Porto Azzurro
📅 Every year, on 25 July
Porto Azzurro celebrates Saint James on 25 July, in the church dedicated to him.
The village was called Longone until 1873, then Porto Longone, and from 1947 Porto Azzurro. The change has a reason on record: senator Giovan Battista Queirolo remarked that to anyone who had never been there the name brought to mind only the prison, and that a place so full of light would be better served by «Porto Azzurro or Porto Verde». The comune took the first.
On the headland stands the fort that Philip III of Spain had raised in 1604: here began the State of the Presidi, Spanish, then Austrian, then of the Bourbons of Naples. In 1906 Capoliveri broke away and became a comune of its own, but the arms of Porto Azzurro still hold the two together: the castle of Longone and the dolphin coiled round an anchor, which was Capoliveri's sign.
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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.