Patron saint festival
Feast of the Holy Name of Mary
📅 Every year, on 12 September
On 12 September Busalla celebrates the Holy Name of Mary; since 2017 the town has also hosted the Space Festival, devised by Busalla-born astronaut Franco Malerba.
At Busalla some say the name comes from «brucialla», burn it, for the number of times the town was sacked and set alight by passing armies. Historians lean towards the «busi», the hollows in the bed of the Scrivia, but popular memory has its reasons.
Between Ronco Scrivia and Busalla, from 1315, Guelphs and Ghibellines made a battlefield; the town was sacked in 1392 and again in 1418. The Spinola castle, wrecked in the sixteenth century, ended with its foundations reused for the marquis's palace. The first document that names Busalla is a notarial deed of 15 April 1192. There are 5,741 residents.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Busalla 1
No events match these filters.
Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
Near Busalla
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Busalla, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.