Patron saint festival In 303 days
Feast of Maria Assunta
📅 Every year, on 15 August
On 15 August Farra d'Isonzo, a municipality of 1,752 inhabitants in the province of Gorizia, celebrates its patroness Maria Assunta (Assumption of Mary).
The name is Lombard: fara, the stronghold granted to a family. At Mainizza the Romans had a posting station and a massive bridge over the Isonzo, the Pons Sontii: over that bridge came, to invade the empire, Goths, Ostrogoths, Lombards, Avars, Huns, Hungarians and Turks. The castle, which the emperor gave in 967 to the patriarch of Aquileia, was later taken and destroyed by the counts of Gorizia.
The palace that is now the town hall was begun in 1728 by the Strassoldo, after the government had razed their previous one to punish one of the family, an accomplice in notorious crimes. And a villa in the village, built for the owners of the mill, was within a few years the German command, then the residence of a British commander, then the seat of the American command.
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Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 2.9 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 4.1 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Chiesa di Santa Maria al Carrobiolo 📍 Monza · 4.8 km Church of Santa Maria al Carrobiolo in Monza, with works by Peterzano and Moncalvo, vault frescoed 1707-1709. Chiesa di San Pietro Martire 📍 Monza · 4.8 km San Pietro Martire in Monza, 14th-century church for the Dominican killed in 1252, with a 15th-century cloister. Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 5.1 km Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Duomo di Monza 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Monza Cathedral, founded by Queen Theodelinda around 595, home of the Iron Crown.