Lavagno
Lavagno lies east of Verona, about twelve kilometres from the historic centre, on ground that rises from the plain toward the firs...
Updated 12 July 2026
The story
The story of Lavagno
A municipality of four hamlets
The municipal territory of Lavagno comprises San Pietro, where the town hall stands and which spreads across the plain at the foot of the volcanic hill of San Briccio, together with the hamlets of San Briccio, Turano and Vago. This is typical geography for the hill belt east of Verona, where small farming settlements follow the road climbing toward Val d'Illasi, retaining a rural character despite their closeness to the provincial capital.
The San Briccio hill and its nineteenth-century fort
The volcanic hill of San Briccio was inhabited from the Eneolithic period through the Bronze and Iron Ages, as shown by Venetic-era finds unearthed here and now held at Verona's Natural History Museum. Between 1883 and 1888, the Italian army engineering corps built Forte San Briccio on the hilltop, part of Verona's ring of defensive fortifications, a site that ties together the area's prehistoric past and its nineteenth-century military history.
Vago and the church of San Giacomo del Grigliano
In the hamlet of Vago stands the church of San Giacomo del Grigliano, a Romanesque-Gothic building begun in the late fourteenth century to a design by Giovanni and Nicolò da Ferrara. It is the town's principal architectural landmark, a late-medieval religious building preserved within the hamlet's farming landscape.
Between Valpolicella and Soave: a wine landscape
Lavagno sits at the edge of the so-called extended Valpolicella zone, which also includes the Illasi, Tramigna and Mezzane valleys, and borders the Soave winegrowing area. The Mezzane valley, which reaches as far as Vago, is vineyard country on soils that are partly volcanic and partly calcareous, producing wines of the Valpolicella denomination alongside those of the neighbouring Soave zone, an agricultural landscape that accompanies visitors along the hill roads east of the city.
Living close to Verona
Thanks to its short distance from the centre of Verona, Lavagno today is mainly a residential town, chosen by those seeking a quieter pace of life without moving too far from the city's jobs and services. This dual nature, agricultural and residential, shows in the landscape, with farm courtyards standing alongside newer housing and vine rows reaching almost to the edge of the built-up areas.
Experiences not to miss
- Climb up to Forte San Briccio for views over the Veronese plain and the first hills
- Visit the late-Gothic church of San Giacomo del Grigliano in Vago
- Drive the country roads through the vineyards of the Mezzane valley, on the edge of the Soave wine area
- Explore the small hamlets of San Pietro, Turano and San Briccio, examples of hillside farming settlements near Verona
- Use Lavagno as a quiet base for reaching Verona, Valpolicella and the Soave hills
To see
What to see in Lavagno
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