In 1806 the shipping contractor Ottavio Boroni had a palace built for himself at Cellatica in the shape of a ship: a little tower in the middle and portholes opening in the walls. The village, which has no sea at all, owes its name instead to wine: Cellatica is thought to come from cella, perhaps the wine cellar of a monastery, and in the documents it has been Zellatica, Cella, Villa and Celadèga. To this day its hills give a red wine that bears the name of the comune.
The sanctuary of the Madonna della Stella, of 1539, straddles three comuni — Cellatica, Concesio and Gussago — and over the years this has produced a certain amount of dispute over who owns it. It was built after a miracle: at the place called la Selva, so the story goes, the Madonna and Child appeared to a deaf-mute shepherd, healed him and told him she wanted a church on that spot. In the little chapel of the alpine troops, instead, the altar holds a handful of sand from the Libyan desert and a handful of Russian earth.
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📅 Every year, on 23 April; the last Sunday of May brings the Madonna procession
Cellatica celebrates Saint George the Martyr on 23 April, with the procession of the patron's statue through the streets of the town. The last Sunday of May brings the Madonna procession.
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