Patron saint festival In 137 days
Blessed Bertrand, patron of the Cathedral of Santa Maria
📅 Every year, on 1 March
Fontaniva celebrates Blessed Bertrand on 1 March, in the cathedral dedicated to him together with Saint Mary.
The name comes from water: this is the belt of resurgent springs, where the upper plain begins to give back what it has absorbed, and fons viva means precisely living spring. Since the early two-thousands excavations have turned up traces of a nomadic people of the Copper Age, called the Bartandi, of whom almost nothing is known: they are the oldest in the upper Paduan plain.
One of the most powerful families of the Padua area took its name from the village, the Fontaniva, who bore a rampant lion; from them the Peraga are said to descend, whose first arms were a yellow wheel on a blue field. The Ezzelini too held property here: it was listed item by item after their defeat in 1260.
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Chiesa di Sant'Antonio di Padova 📍 San Benedetto del Tronto · 22 km The church of Sant'Antonio in San Benedetto del Tronto, with its mosaic of the sermon to the fish. Santuario della Madonna delle Grazie 📍 Teramo · 23 km Shrine of Teramo's patroness by Porta Madonna: gilded fifteenth-century statue, twelfth-century cloister. Palazzina Azzurra 📍 San Benedetto del Tronto · 23 km The Rationalist summer dance pavilion of San Benedetto del Tronto, now an exhibition space. Chiesa di Sant'Anna dei Pompetti 📍 Teramo · 23 km Remains of Teramo's ancient cathedral in piazza Sant'Anna: an early Christian three-nave church on a Roman insula. Torre dei Gualtieri 📍 San Benedetto del Tronto · 23 km The medieval keep of the Paese Alto of San Benedetto del Tronto, with a viewing terrace over the Riviera. Chiesa di Sant'Agostino 📍 Teramo · 23 km Augustinian church in Teramo from which the Good Friday Procession of the Desolata starts; closed since the 2009 quake.