Patron saint festival In 40 days
Feast of Saint Columbanus
📅 Every year, on 23 November
On 23 November Parzanica celebrates its patron Saint Columbanus, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
The village stands at seven hundred and fifty metres above the western shore of lake Iseo, and until 1957 it could be reached only by mule tracks; the panoramic road from Tavernola was opened in 1999. Its history, as the source itself admits, is made of small things: it used to be called Gromol, from the Latin grumus, a hillock.
The arms are a portrait: there is a chestnut burr, because the chestnut has fed this place for as long as anyone knows; a tower, for the old quarrels and the temper of the people; and a buttercup, the flower that grows among the rocks in the poorest ground, put there to stand for those who managed to live on so hard a soil.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Parzanica 1
No events match these filters.
Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
Near Parzanica
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Parzanica, but an easy day trip away.
Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.