Patron saint festival In 100 days
Saint Vincent and Saint Anastasius, patrons of Capiago
📅 Every year, on 22 January, in Capiago
In Capiago, Saint Vincent and Saint Anastasius are celebrated on 22 January, in the church dedicated to them.
Capiago and Intimiano were for centuries two villages that looked in opposite directions. In the age of the communes Capiago was the first of the Como communes to side with Frederick Barbarossa, Intimiano the last that remained within the orbit of Milan, as much for its civil government as for its church. The break has outlived the merger: to this day Capiago belongs to the diocese of Como and follows the Roman rite, Intimiano to the archdiocese of Milan and follows the Ambrosian one.
The two comuni were put together in 1928 because they had too few inhabitants, and the new comune was called Salvadera; the double name arrived only the year after. The town hall was placed along the straight road that joins the two old centres, that is, exactly halfway between them. The name of Capiago comes instead from its first settlement, a lazaretto: the house of sores, cà di piàgh in dialect. And the dialect also keeps the nicknames the two villages gave each other: the people of Intimiano are the rats, those of Capiago the oxen.
The Capiago Intimiano guide
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Near Capiago Intimiano
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Capiago Intimiano, 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.