Patron saint festival In 60 days
Feast of Saint Lucy
📅 Every year, on 13 December
On 13 December Santa Luce celebrates its patroness Saint Lucy, whose name became part of the town's own name and that of the nearby lake.
At Pomaia, since 1977, there is one of the largest centres of Buddhist culture in Europe. Not far off, at Pastina, one of the last charcoal burners in Italy is still at work, and there is an ecomuseum of alabaster. At Monteforti, on the other hand, no one is left: the village is empty, and of the sanctuary, once the most important in the district, only the walls remain.
In 1943 the village was chosen as a place of internment for foreign Jews. On 23 July an Austrian couple arrived, the Kammers, who had already spent two years between forced residence and a camp. Under the Italian Social Republic they were arrested: he, Karl, died at Auschwitz on 16 May 1944; she, Dora, escaped deportation only because she had died in January.
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Near Santa Luce
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Santa Luce, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.