Patron saint festival In 329 days
Feast of San Nicola da Tolentino
📅 Every year, on 10 September
On 10 September Albi, a municipality of 1,010 inhabitants in the province of Catanzaro, celebrates its patron San Nicola da Tolentino.
Between Albi and Taverna, in the middle of the Sila Piccola, stand the ruins of the abbey of Santa Maria di Peseca: it was founded by Basilian monks, Greeks of Italy, between the tenth and the eleventh century, and tradition has it born from the finding of an icon of the Virgin. Of the complex there survive the perimeter and one wall of the church with two Romanesque windows.
At Albi the surname Corea is common, and in 1932 a Japanese historian concluded from this that the descendants of Antonio Corea, the first Korean to reach Europe, had settled here. The village believed it: in 1989 the mayor had a monument put up in piazza Corea, and in 1992 he travelled to South Korea with the supposed descendants. Scholars now hold the theory to be unlikely.
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Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 300 m Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Parco GruBrìa 📍 Seregno · 800 m The farmland and woodland park between Seregno and northern Milan, along the Villoresi canal, created in 2019. Parco Lago Nord 📍 Paderno Dugnano · 5.2 km The park created from an old quarry in Paderno Dugnano, with two small lakes and a waterfall fed by the Villoresi canal. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Parco Borromeo 📍 Cesano Maderno · 5.3 km The park of Palazzo Arese Borromeo in Cesano Maderno: Italian garden, rose beds and the dromedary fountain. Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 5.4 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park.