Patron saint festival In 282 days
Saint James, patron of the land of the Sanctuary of Lovernato
📅 Every year, on 25 July
Ospitaletto celebrates Saint James on 25 July, in the church dedicated to him.
The name comes from a shelter for travellers: the hospice of San Giacomo, dedicated to the saint of Compostela who protects wayfarers, appears in a document of 843, when Ramperto, bishop of Brescia, handed its jurisdiction to the monastery of San Faustino. The papers also call it hospitale ducis, a sign that in Lombard times it had belonged to the duke of Brescia, and the parish church still carries that dedication. The arms show a spade blade between two lupin plants in golden fruit, with two quails back to back at the foot.
Before Ospitaletto the local centre was Lovernato, today a large farmstead in the fields south of the town: it is named in 807, in a document recalling a Lombard lord, Dragone di Rodermundo, living in Vico Luernaco. Ospitaletto itself is first named as a municipality in 1369, over a tax quarrel with Passirano. In the parish church, which the community was allowed to build after asking the doge's leave, a Pietà by Romanino is set inside a larger canvas by Antonio Gandino.
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chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo 📍 Luni · 400 m Rothari levelled the Byzantine chapel; in the eleventh century Nicola rebuilt on its highest point. santuario di Nostra Signora del Mirteto 📍 Luni · 1.1 km In 1537 a painting wept tears of blood: from that grew the sanctuary above Ortonovo. chiesa di San Lorenzo 📍 Luni · 1.3 km Built between 1621 and 1645 on the ruins of a castle, a perpetual abbey since 1714. chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km Three naves on eight columns of Carrara marble, under a portal carved in 1671. Palazzo Amati Ingolotti Cornelio 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km A marchese rebuilt it for his duchess wife; its sixteenth-century cellars now pour the local wine. Luna 📍 Luni · 2.9 km Rome's marble port: forum, theatre and an amphitheatre for 7,000, at the mouth of the Magra.