Cerveno ( Camunian: ) is a ''

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces ('' province''). The can ...

'' of 683 inhabitants in

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, Lombardy, northern

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. The village of Cerveno is bounded by other communes of

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, Losine,

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, Paisco Loveno,

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History

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

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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 language, Italian for "Sacred Mountain") of Piedmont and Lombardy are a series of nine Calvary (sanctuary), calvaries or groups of chapels and other Architecture, architectural features created in northern Italy during th ...

. 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 Way of Sorrows or the Via Crucis, refers to a series of images depicting Jesus Christ on the day of his crucifixion and accompanying prayers. The stations grew out of imitati ...

, 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 A variety of musical terms are likely to be encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. Most of the terms are Italian, in accordance with the Italian origins of many European musical conventions. Sometimes, the special musi ...

, who completed stations 8, 9, and 10. Every ten years, the townspeople re-enact the scenes of the

Passion of Christ In Christianity, the Passion (from the Latin verb ''patior, passus sum''; "to suffer, bear, endure", from which also "patience, patient", etc.) is the short final period in the life of Jesus Christ. Depending on one's views, the "Passion" m ...

.Sanctuary Website

Culture

The scütüm are in

camunian dialect Eastern Lombard is a group of closely related variants of Lombard, a Gallo-Italic dialect spoken in Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua, in the area around Cremona and in parts of Trentino. Its main variants are B ...

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