Patron saint festival In 256 days
Saint Peter, patron of the town's sagra
📅 Every year, on 29 June, with the town's sagra
Lavagno celebrates Saint Peter on 29 June, in the church dedicated to him, with the traditional town sagra.
On the evening of 8 July 1852, inside Villa Zannini, the poet and patriot Carlo Montanari was arrested: from there he went to trial and to a death sentence. The villa is eighteenth-century, with an ice house in the park and the Da Porto arms on the pediment, and the Mezzane stream running beside it.
The rest of Lavagno lies in small things: someone counted the votive shrines scattered across the district and came up with eleven crosses, twenty-eight niches dedicated to the Madonna and ten to the saints, some of them from the seventeenth century. On the hill of San Briccio, instead, stands an Italian army fort, built in the eighteen-eighties on top of a fifteenth-century church.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Lavagno 1
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🍝 The flavours of Lavagno
Pandoro star-shaped Christmas cake, soft, with vanilla icing sugar
Eight points, powdered sugar like snow on a mountain: pandoro was born in Verona in 1894, patented by Domenico Melegatti.
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Near Lavagno
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Lavagno, but an easy day trip away.
Prato della Valle 📍 Padua · 15 km At 90,000 square meters, this monumental elliptical square is one of Europe's largest, ringed by 78 stone statues. basilica di Sant'Antonio di Padova 📍 Padua · 16 km Padua made him a saint in under a year, and his little church is still inside the basilica. Orto botanico di Padova 📍 Padua · 15 km It was made against fraud: to tell the genuine medicinal plants from the fakes. Villa Giusti 📍 Padua · 14 km Villa Giusti, Padua, where the armistice ending the First World War was signed on 3 November 1918. basilica di Santa Giustina 📍 Padua · 15 km The eight-domed abbey on the Prato della Valle: the tomb of Saint Luke and the Veronese on the altar. chiesa di Santa Croce 📍 Padua · 15 km Padua's only rococo church, designed by a Somascan father.