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Saint Zeno, patron of the Shrine of the Madonna del Monte
📅 Every year, on 12 April
San Zenone degli Ezzelini celebrates Saint Zeno on 12 April, in the church dedicated to him.
The Ezzelini who keep turning up all over the Veneto came to their end here. After Ezzelino III was defeated in 1259, his brother Alberico shut himself in the castle of San Zenone with his family; a league of Guelph cities besieged him and on 26 August 1260 took the place: he was tortured and killed, and his wife and children with him. The village still bears their name.
The family had come to Italy in 1036 in the train of the emperor Conrad the Salian, and had received in fief the villages at the foot of Monte Grappa. On the town's arms is the castle tower and, above it, an ostrich with a horseshoe in its beak: that was the Ezzelini crest. Every July the village re-enacts the siege.
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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