Patron saint festival In 279 days
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene
📅 Every year, on 22 July
On 22 July Brandico, a municipality of 1,611 inhabitants in the province of Brescia, celebrates its patroness Saint Mary Magdalene (santa Maria Maddalena).
Cicciobello came out of Brandico. Here was the seat of Sebino — first Sebino Bambole, then Tecnogiocattoli Sebino — and it was Sebino that in 1962 created the life-size baby doll that cries when its dummy is taken away: it was launched on 5 May of that year, and the date is still used to celebrate its anniversaries. The face was designed by Silvestro Bellini, who took his inspiration from that of a baby from Bergamo. The success was such that the firm reached 550 employees; production ended in 1984, when the brand and the moulds passed to others.
For the rest Brandico is a small, discreet village. Over the centuries the Ducco and Fisogni families held it in fief; the main church is that of Santa Maria Maddalena, of the nineteenth century, tripartite and with a fairly narrow central nave; and the town's coat of arms has never had a decree of concession — the comune simply adopts and uses it. It lies in the Brescia plain, and it is one of those villages one drives through without noticing; yet for twenty years there came out of here a baby doll that became a symbol for whole generations of children.
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chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.