Patron saint festival In 317 days
Feast of San Giovanni Battista
📅 Every year, on 29 August
On 29 August Vescovana, a municipality of 1,717 inhabitants in the province of Padua, celebrates its patron San Giovanni Battista.
The name comes from «bishop», and it is written Veschevana as early as the thirteenth century: so it has nothing to do with cardinal Francesco Pisani, who built the villa here three centuries later, though some have supposed it did. On the arms, instead, there is the fortress with towers that Ezzelino da Romano destroyed in 1249.
The Pisani villa was not built for holidays but for work: the cardinal, who was bishop of Padua from 1524, chose Vescovana to house the administration of the lands his family had bought in the lower Paduan plain in 1478. Even the comune's banner takes its colours from the Pisani arms, and in the villa's grounds there is a funerary chapel of the nineteenth century.
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Places to see within 25 km
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chiesa dei Santi Martino e Rosa 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The Dominicans' church on the Monticano, in Conegliano: an unfinished brick façade and an Adoration of the Shepherds. chiesa dei Santi Rocco e Domenico 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The church of San Rocco in Conegliano, an ex-voto for the plague of 1630: twentieth-century façade, a De Min ceiling. duomo di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km Conegliano's cathedral, hidden behind the frescoed Scuola dei Battuti: inside is Cima's altarpiece of 1492. Museo civico di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km The museum in the tower of Conegliano's castle: picture gallery, detached frescoes and the panoramic terrace on top. chiesa di San Dionigi 📍 Conegliano · 17 km The parish church of Collalbrigo, a hamlet of Conegliano, rebuilt after the 1873 earthquake and consecrated in 1894. Chiesa di San Giorgio 📍 Pordenone · 21 km Pordenone church with a bell tower shaped like a Doric column and the statue of Saint George on top.