Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Justina
📅 Every year, on 7 October
On 7 October Limana celebrates its patron Saint Justina, with Saint Valentine as co-patron on 14 February; the territory inspired Dino Buzzati's "I miracoli di Valmorel".
Limana has 5,061 inhabitants in the middle of the Valbelluna, from the three hundred and twenty metres of the Piave's gravel bed to the nearly fifteen hundred of Monte Pezza. The name comes from the stream, which a document of 794 calls fluvii Limana, and would go back to the Latin limen, boundary: and a boundary it truly was, first between the Roman municipia of Belluno and Oderzo, then between the dioceses of Belluno and Ceneda. In the church of San Biagio, at Canè, a Roman funerary urn bearing the name of Marcus Iunius Maximus has been walled in for centuries.
Until 1806 the hamlets governed themselves through the Regole, headed by a Marigo and by the Massari, who administered the common woods and pastures according to their own statutes; then Napoleon came, the Regole ended and the territory was broken into five comuni. Today's comune was born around 1871, with its seat at Pieve di Limana, which had always been the centre. But in the twentieth century the new roads passed elsewhere: the centre moved to the hamlet of Dussoi, which since the sixties has simply been called Limana Capoluogo.
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Royal Palace of Caserta 📍 Caserta · 21 km The Bourbon palace: 1,200 rooms, 1,742 windows and three kilometres of fountains uphill. Ponte Leproso 📍 Benevento · 17 km Roman bridge over the Sabato where the Via Appia entered Benevento, rebuilt in 1712; UNESCO site. Basilica del Corpus Domini 📍 Maddaloni · 17 km Maddaloni's main church, with a high altar designed by Luigi Vanvitelli and panels by Pompeo Landolfo. basilica della Madonna delle Grazie 📍 Benevento · 17 km Neoclassical Greek-cross basilica to the patron Madonna of Benevento, with a Franciscan convent. teatro romano di Benevento 📍 Benevento · 17 km Roman theatre inaugurated under Hadrian between 125 and 128, with a 98-metre cavea; still used for shows. duomo di Benevento 📍 Benevento · 17 km Cathedral rebuilt after its destruction in 1943, keeping the Romanesque façade, bell tower and ancient crypt.