Patron saint festival In 300 days
Saint Lawrence, patron of Pozzolengo
📅 Every year, on 10 August
Pozzolengo celebrates Saint Lawrence on 10 August, in the church dedicated to him.
The station that served Pozzolengo bore the name of Pozzolengo, but in 1880 it was taken away: it was renamed San Martino della Battaglia, for the fame the battle of 1859 had given the neighbouring locality. The station, what is more, stands in the territory of Desenzano. So the village lost its own name on the railway to a clash fought next door, and today it no longer has even that: the link is a bus that goes to Desenzano station.
The real name, in any case, comes from water. The old Pocelengo seems to mean the village of the wells, and wells the territory had scattered everywhere, along with the peat bogs. Three thousand four hundred and thirty-eight inhabitants in the province of Brescia, on morainic hills where three provinces and two regions meet. The castle on Monte Fluno dates from the year one thousand; the parish church, of 1510, holds an Antegnati organ. The monumental cemetery is of 1881. Saffron is grown here, along with a biscuit of spelt flour and the morainic salami.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Pozzolengo, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.