Patron saint festival In 195 days
Feast of Saint Vitalis
📅 Every year, on 28 April
On 28 April Seniga, a municipality of 1,581 inhabitants in the province of Brescia, celebrates its patron Saint Vitalis, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
In the summer of 1947 there was a young Polish priest at Seniga whom the villagers called don Carlo. He was Karol Wojtyła. In 1946 he had been allowed to go to Rome for his licentiate examination in theology; then a communist government came to power in Poland and going back became impossible. With nowhere to go, he was invited by a fellow seminarian, don Francesco Vergine, who came from Seniga, to stay here with his family. A great cycling enthusiast, from here he made many outings across the lower Brescia plain and the Cremona country. In June 1948 he went back to Rome for his doctorate in theology.
The village stands where the Mella ends: south-east of the hamlet of Regona, in open countryside, the river flows into the Oglio and ceases to exist as itself. The Oglio, in its turn, was for centuries a state border, between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan: the two banks were linked by an old ferry-port that also served as the customs post between the two states. Seniga, on the Brescia bank, had a castle and a settlement well defended by walls. Today its territory lies within the regional park of the Oglio Nord.
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Chiesa di Santa Maria 📍 Cantù · 12 km The octagonal seventeenth-century church built for the Benedictine nuns of Cantù, beside today's town hall. chiesa dei Santi Materno e Lucia (complesso) 📍 Lecco · 12 km The friary of Fra Cristoforo from The Betrothed, in Pescarenico, with a canvas by Cerano. Basilica di San Nicolò 📍 Lecco · 12 km Lecco's principal church, with its 96-metre neo-Gothic bell tower built on a Spanish bastion. Mura di Lecco 📍 Lecco · 12 km The triangular Visconti walls that enclosed Lecco, of which the Torre Viscontea and the Vallo survive. villa Manzoni 📍 Lecco · 13 km Alessandro Manzoni's family home in Lecco, now a Manzoni museum and art gallery. chiesa di San Giuseppe al Caleotto 📍 Lecco · 13 km The tent-shaped church of the Caleotto in Lecco, in reinforced concrete with parabolic arches, from 1951.