Cerveno ( Camunian: ) is a ''

comune A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...

'' of 683 inhabitants in

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, northern

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. The village of Cerveno is bounded by other communes of

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, Ono San Pietro,

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History

At the 1397 peace of Breno, the representative of the community Cerveno chose the side of the

Ghibellines The Guelphs and Ghibellines ( , ; ) were factions supporting the Pope (Guelphs) and the Holy Roman Emperor (Ghibellines) in the Italian city-states of Central Italy and Northern Italy during the Middle Ages. During the 12th and 13th centurie ...

Main sights

The churches of Cerveno are: * Parish of San Martino, 13th century, was remodeled in the 17th century. The altarpiece is of Beniamino Simoni. * Sanctuary della Via Crucis, similar to the

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy The (plural of , Italian for "Sacred Mountain") of Piedmont and Lombardy are a series of nine calvaries or groups of chapels and other architectural features created in northern Italy during the late sixteenth century and the seventeenth centu ...

. The chapels stand beside the parish church and oratory of San Martino. The sanctuary contains an 18th-century

Via Crucis The Stations of the Cross or the Way of the Cross, also known as the Via Dolorosa, Way of Sorrows or the , are a series of fourteen images depicting Jesus in Christianity, Jesus Christ on the day of Crucifixion of Jesus, his crucifixion and acc ...

, carved of wood and stucco, and painted. the fourteen stations contain 198 life-sized statues. In 1752, Don Andrea Boldini, a parishioner commissioned the work from the local sculptor Beniamino Simoni of Fresine. However, due to continual fights with the parishioners and inhabitants, Simoni was dismissed, and the work was reassigned to Donato and Grazioso Fantoni, who completed stations 8, 9, and 10. Every ten years, the townspeople re-enact the scenes of the

Passion of Christ The Passion (from latin language, Latin , "to suffer, bear, endure") is the short final period before the death of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, described in the four canonical gospels. It is commemorated in Christianity every year during Holy ...

.Sanctuary Website

Culture

The scütüm are in

camunian dialect Eastern Lombard is a group of closely related variants of Lombard language, Lombard, a Gallo-Italic languages, Gallo-Italic language spoken in Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua, in the area around Cremona and in p ...

nicknames, sometimes personal, elsewhere showing the characteristic features of a community. The one which characterize the people of Cerveno is ''Giüdé, Capèle, Brusa crus''.

References

External links

Fotografie storiche - Lombardia Beni Culturali
Cities and towns in Lombardy {{Brescia-geo-stub