Patron saint festival In 235 days
Saint Vincent, the first bishop
📅 Every year, on 6 June
On 6 June Bevagna celebrates Saint Vincent, its first bishop and patron; a few weeks later the town's four gaite go back to the Middle Ages.
The cloths woven here were so well known that they took the town's name: they were called bevagne. Earlier still, as a Roman town, Mevania had a port on the Topino, which boats could then work their way up, and it was a municipium from 90 BC.
The baths and the amphitheatre survive, and on piazza Silvestri two Romanesque churches: San Michele, signed by the masters Binello and Rodolfo, and San Silvestro, finished in 1195. The coat of arms was granted by Pope Innocent VI in 1360, with the letters O S F, ob servatam fidem, for the faith kept. The earlier one had honey jars. The 5,074 residents still call their quarters gaite, as in Lombard times.
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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.