Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Michael
📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Gaby celebrates Saint Michael in the parish church dedicated to him; the municipality also preserves the Vourry sanctuary.
On a roof beam of the Palatz fortified house an inscription in German records who commissioned it and who built it, in 1632: Hans Driszquer and the master builder Hans Goyet. From that surname, in its French form, comes the Trentaz still borne in Gaby, which goes back to the German Dreiziger, the thirtieth.
The village first grew at Lihrla, where the ruins survive of a fortified house used as a plague hospital during the epidemic of 1630. Above the main settlement opens the Niel valley, with its 28-metre waterfall: trade towards Vercelli and Biella passed this way, over the cols that close in the land of the 487 residents.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Legnano · 2.1 km Medieval castle on an Olona island, once the convent of San Giorgio, with the Lampugnani keep of 1437-1445. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Legnano · 2.6 km Legnano's oldest church, rebuilt in 1590 and enlarged in 1740, with paintings by the Lampugnani. Basilica di San Magno 📍 Legnano · 2.8 km Renaissance basilica of the Bramante school built from 1504 to 1513, with Bernardino Luini's polyptych. Chiesa di Santa Rita 📍 Legnano · 3.2 km Church of the Purification, later Santa Rita, annexed to the Melzi institute, with Lampugnani frescoes. Museo civico Guido Sutermeister 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Legnano's archaeological museum, set up in 1929, with finds from the Copper Age to the Lombards and the Sala collection. Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Lombard Romanesque church of 1902 at Legnanello, with a Byzantine altar of Carrara marble and mosaics of 1923.