Patron saint festival In 305 days
Our Lady of the Assumption, patron of Guanzate
📅 Every year, on 15 August
Guanzate celebrates Our Lady of the Assumption on 15 August, in the church dedicated to her.
Guanzate appears in the documents for the first time in 1125, and it appears there badly: its inhabitants, who sided with Milan, had killed the Como nobleman Beltramo Brocco, and Como answered by destroying the village. Less than three centuries later the threat came from the opposite side: in 1412 it was the Milanese who wanted their revenge, because a certain Luchino di Vogenzate had taken part in the plot in which Giovanni Maria Visconti was assassinated.
Of the village as it is today the strangest thing is the battlemented tower in piazza Partigiani, which has the air of a fortification and is in fact a drinking-water tank, built in the years immediately before the Great War to a design by the engineer Gaetano Suvini. The war memorial met with a singular fate: the bronze statue, a soldier offering olive and laurel as a sign of peace, was given up in 1943 as material useful to the war effort, and it had to wait until after the war to be replaced.
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Near Guanzate
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Guanzate, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.