Patron saint festival In 303 days
Saint Hippolytus, patron of Gazzaniga
📅 Every year, on 13 August
Gazzaniga celebrates Saint Hippolytus, Roman martyr, on 13 August, in the church dedicated to him.
The name of Gazzaniga comes from the late Latin gagium, which meant a large fenced woodland: from there Gagianum and then Gagianiga, the form in which the village appears in the first written documents, around 830, and which is still the name in dialect. The first settlement was made by the Lombards, who planted a fara here, and the village grew around that court, on ground raised above the valley floor of the Serio.
The old centre has kept its medieval layout: houses of large stones and river cobbles, with the loggias that served for farm work, the walls with their gateways and, at the eastern end, the council square, where the town house and the butcher's stood. In the little valley of the Rovaro, instead, opens the Corna Altezza cave, where burials from the Copper Age have been found along with the bones of foxes, marmots and cave bears.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Gazzaniga, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.