Patron saint festival In 200 days
Saint Gotthard, patron of May
📅 Every year, on 4 May
Gambara celebrates Saint Gotthard on 4 May. The town's other patrons, Saints Peter and Paul, are celebrated on 29 June.
Gambara lies between the Mella and the Chiese, on the right bank of a third river that bears the same name as the village. In the tenth century these lands belonged to the abbey of Leno, and it was the Benedictine monks who drained them: they were covered by thick marshes, and were made fit for cultivation. In 1154 the village passed to the bishopric of Brescia, and later to the noble Gambara family, who left it their name.
The churches of the village went on being painted until only yesterday. In the parish church, which is of 1595, the roundel in the presbytery with Saint Peter receiving the keys is from 1933 and is the work of Guido Antonio Margoni, who together with his brothers Enrico and Renzo formed one of the last companies of fresco painters at work in Lombardy. And on the front of the church of the Madonna della Neve, founded in 1504, the frescoes one sees today were made in the nineteen-nineties by a local painter, Franco Salami.
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Patron saint festival In 256 days
Saints Peter and Paul, patrons of Gambara
📅 Every year, on 29 June
Gambara celebrates Saints Peter and Paul on 29 June, in the church dedicated to them. The town's other patron, Saint Gotthard, is celebrated on 4 May.
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Near Gambara
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Gambara, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa dei Santi Martino e Rosa 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The Dominicans' church on the Monticano, in Conegliano: an unfinished brick façade and an Adoration of the Shepherds. chiesa dei Santi Rocco e Domenico 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The church of San Rocco in Conegliano, an ex-voto for the plague of 1630: twentieth-century façade, a De Min ceiling. duomo di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km Conegliano's cathedral, hidden behind the frescoed Scuola dei Battuti: inside is Cima's altarpiece of 1492. Museo civico di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km The museum in the tower of Conegliano's castle: picture gallery, detached frescoes and the panoramic terrace on top. chiesa di San Dionigi 📍 Conegliano · 17 km The parish church of Collalbrigo, a hamlet of Conegliano, rebuilt after the 1873 earthquake and consecrated in 1894. Chiesa di San Giorgio 📍 Pordenone · 21 km Pordenone church with a bell tower shaped like a Doric column and the statue of Saint George on top.