Patron saint festival In 241 days
Saint Anthony of Padua, patron of Stazzema
📅 Every year, on 13 June
Stazzema celebrates Saint Anthony of Padua on 13 June.
On the twelfth of August 1944, at Sant'Anna, SS troops and Italian fascists killed five hundred and sixty people: villagers, people from the Versilia and others who had come up to the mountain hamlets to be safe; a hundred of them were children, the youngest twenty days old. Two parish priests, don Innocenzo Lazzeri and don Fiore Menguzzo, offered themselves for their people and were killed with them. At Sant'Anna today there are the ossuary and the museum of the Resistance.
This is the only wholly mountainous comune of the Versilia, and its offices are not at Stazzema but at Pontestazzemese. The names say what was dug here: Gallena comes from silver-bearing galena, and two places are called argentiera, the silver works. On the arms there are two iron rings joined by a lily, set there — so the gonfaloniere wrote in 1860 — in memory of the ironwork done here.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Voghera · 7.0 km The fourteenth-century Visconti castle in Voghera, long a prison, with frescoes of the Muses attributed to Bramantino. Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Voghera · 7.4 km The Lombard Gothic church of the Dominicans in Voghera, with fifteen rosary chapels, now Franciscan. Chiesa di San Luca 📍 Pavia · 20 km Church in Pavia of 1586-1609 on the Via Francigena, its façade turned north towards the pilgrims. Chiesa dei Santi Primo e Feliciano 📍 Pavia · 21 km Twelfth-century Romanesque church in Pavia, with its original façade and Agostino da Vaprio's 1498 triptych. Torre civica di Pavia 📍 Pavia · 21 km Eleventh-century tower of Pavia, which collapsed on 17 March 1989: ruins and a 2014 memorial remain. Chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Pavia · 21 km Franciscan church in Pavia with a two-tone Gothic façade and double portal, a Visconti burial site.