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Saint Athanasius, spring patron of Pozzonovo
📅 Every year, on 2 May
Pozzonovo celebrates Saint Athanasius on 2 May.
The name means the new well, and it appears as contrata Puthei Novi in the catastico of Ezzelino, the thirteenth-century parchment that tied the village to the pieve of Monselice. The well that is now the municipal emblem, however, was built only after 1866: the symbol is six centuries younger than the name it is supposed to illustrate. When the coat of arms went up for approval the well stood on a silver field, and it was the heraldic council that changed the ground to blue.
The territory lies between one and six metres above sea level, and it is land taken from the water: drainage began in the sixteenth century and the last marshes were dried only after the First World War, with the hydraulic pump of Ca' Giovanelli. In exchange the parish church holds things one does not expect in a country village: a terracotta Madonna enthroned with the Child, a fifteenth-century work by a pupil of Donatello, and an organ built in 1804 by Gaetano Callido.
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The Nativity of Mary, autumn patron of Pozzonovo
📅 Every year, on 8 September
Pozzonovo celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 8 September, in the church dedicated to her.
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Near Pozzonovo
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Pozzonovo, but an easy day trip away.
Castellazzo 📍 Caluso · 3.5 km The ruins of the medieval fort on the morainic hill that overlooks Caluso. chiesa di San Calocero 📍 Caluso · 3.5 km The ruins of a Romanesque church of 1177, the castle's own, with Roman bricks in its walls. Palazzo Valperga di Masino 📍 Caluso · 3.6 km The Valperga palace, now town hall and regional wine cellar, with a park turned botanical garden. Villa Griselli 📍 Caluso · 3.8 km An Art Nouveau villa of 1926, built at Caluso by a doctor home from Argentina. castello di Malgrà 📍 Rivarolo Canavese · 9.7 km A fourteenth-century castle on the plain, remade by Alfredo d'Andrade: the railway ran beneath it. chiesa parrocchiale di San Michele 📍 Rivarolo Canavese · 10 km An octagonal church of 1759, a masterpiece by Vittone, with a statue fished from the Orco.