Patron saint festival In 305 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Pigra, a municipality of 266 inhabitants in the province of Como, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
There are two ideas about the name: that it comes from the Latin populus, the poplar, or that it refers to the vines, which here ripened later than elsewhere — lazy vines. The village stands at eight hundred and eighty metres on a terrace open over Lake Como, and you reach it by road or by the cable car from Argegno, which in five minutes climbs five hundred and forty metres at a gradient of seventy-one per cent.
In the oratory of San Rocco, shut in among the houses, the painter Salvatore Pozzi frescoed the end wall in 1662 with the Madonna and six saints. In 1848 the parish priest don Cavalli took part in Andrea Brenta's rising against the Austrians and had to go into exile. At the edge of the village the building of the Workers' Society still stands.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Voghera · 7.0 km The fourteenth-century Visconti castle in Voghera, long a prison, with frescoes of the Muses attributed to Bramantino. Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Voghera · 7.4 km The Lombard Gothic church of the Dominicans in Voghera, with fifteen rosary chapels, now Franciscan. Chiesa di San Luca 📍 Pavia · 20 km Church in Pavia of 1586-1609 on the Via Francigena, its façade turned north towards the pilgrims. Chiesa dei Santi Primo e Feliciano 📍 Pavia · 21 km Twelfth-century Romanesque church in Pavia, with its original façade and Agostino da Vaprio's 1498 triptych. Torre civica di Pavia 📍 Pavia · 21 km Eleventh-century tower of Pavia, which collapsed on 17 March 1989: ruins and a 2014 memorial remain. Chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Pavia · 21 km Franciscan church in Pavia with a two-tone Gothic façade and double portal, a Visconti burial site.