Patron saint festival In 28 days
Feast of Saint Martin of Tours
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Vigo di Cadore celebrates its patron Saint Martin of Tours; the municipal territory preserves the Forte Tudaio.
On the nineteenth of July 1509, while the war of the League of Cambrai was passing through the Cadore, the village made a vow for having escaped sack; three years later the church of the Madonna della Difesa was standing. In the church of Sant'Orsola there are fourteenth-century frescoes, and since 2008 a bone of the saint sent by the archbishop of Cologne.
The coat of arms is halved: above is the emblem of the Magnifica Comunità di Cadore, below a pen and a sword crossed. The pen stands for the men of science and letters born here; the sword for the fourteenth of August 1866, when at Treponti the Italians got the better of an Austrian column. Until 1930 the village was called simply Vigo.
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 200 m Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 2.8 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. viadotto Torrente Sori 📍 Sori · 5.5 km 105 metres above the valley: the Dywidag cantilever system made its Italian debut here in 1966. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Bargagli · 6.0 km Traso's parish church, dedicated to Milan's bishop in Genoese country. chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 5.9 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 6.1 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down