Patron saint festival In 103 days
The Conversion of Saint Paul, patron of Faloppio
📅 Every year, on 25 January
Faloppio celebrates the Conversion of Saint Paul on 25 January, in the church dedicated to it.
Within the municipal territory there is a place called Bernasca, and it is from there that the surname Bernasconi comes, one of the commonest in the whole Como area. Bernasca was also one of the three parcels that the Spanish government of the Duchy of Milan put up for auction in 1652, together with Camnago and the Cassina del Ronco, to finance the military spending of Philip IV. The city of Como turned up at the auction too, and not out of any interest in the land: it feared that whoever bought it might, by virtue of the feudal rights attached, exempt the inhabitants from paying taxes to Como.
Four thousand two hundred and seventy-four inhabitants in the province of Como, four kilometres from the Swiss border. The municipality of Faloppio was created from scratch in 1928 by merging Camnago Faloppia and Gaggino, and the first of the two had changed its name several times: Camnago Faloppia, then Camnago di Uggiate, then Camnago Faloppia again from 1893. At Bernasca stands the oratory of Santa Maria Maddalena, founded in 1497 inside a fortified farm complex: the stoup is made from a pre-Romanesque capital, and a candle given by Innocent XI is kept there.
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Near Faloppio
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Faloppio, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Bartolomeo 📍 Trino · 12 km Trino's parish church, rebuilt after the 1628 siege, with a Giovenone triptych of 1516. chiesa di San Michele in Insula 📍 Trino · 12 km Trino's old pieve, on a site the Po once ringed: Romanesque frescoes of the twelfth century. Parco naturale del Bosco della Partecipanza e delle Grange Vercellesi 📍 Trino · 16 km A lowland wood surviving among the paddy fields, run by the same families since 1202. abbazia di Santa Maria di Lucedio 📍 Trino · 18 km Founded by Cistercians in 1123 among the marshes, today a working farm inside its walls. castello di San Genuario 📍 Crescentino · 20 km A monastery of 707, relics given by Lothair in 843, and a castle built to defend them chiesa della Beata Vergine Ausiliatrice 📍 Asti · 21 km Church of Viatosto in Asti, Romanesque and Gothic, with a bell tower of 1266, medieval frescoes and a wooden Madonna.