Patron saint festival In 287 days
Feast of Saints Nazario and Celso
📅 Every year, on 28 July
On 28 July Pagazzano, a municipality of 2,082 inhabitants in the province of Bergamo, celebrates its patron saints Nazario and Celso.
For at least six centuries the parish of Pagazzano belonged to the diocese of Pavia, although it was cut off from all the rest of that diocese: an ecclesiastical island in the middle of the Bergamo plain. It already was so in 1217, and perhaps earlier, and it remained so until 1820, when the village passed to the diocese of Bergamo. The name too is uncertain: some derive it from pagus, the ancient village, others from the name of a Roman landowner, Pacatius.
To the east the boundary of the comune is still the Fosso bergamasco, the ditch dug to settle matters between the Duchy of Milan and the Republic of Venice, which stayed in force until 1797 and today is interrupted almost everywhere. Inside that border the Visconti built, between 1450 and 1475, a square brick castle with a wide moat: no embellishment, no turning into a princely residence, only military architecture. To the south, on the border with Caravaggio, lies the Fontanile Brancaleone nature reserve.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Pagazzano, 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.