Patron saint festival In 316 days
Saint Alexander, patron of Robbiate
📅 Every year, on 26 August
Robbiate celebrates Saint Alexander on 26 August, in the church dedicated to him.
Robbiate sits in the Meratese, in north-eastern Brianza, on morainic hills dropping to the Adda, which runs here at the bottom of a gorge and divides Lecco province from Bergamo. The name first appears in an exchange deed of 966, held in the State Archive of Milan, which names the vico et fundo Robiate; its origin is uncertain, perhaps the hill above the village, Monte Robbio, read as red mountain after the reddish clay of the soil.
Vines grew on that hill, and their wine, Monterobbio, reached the verses of Carlo Porta; in a piece about the village don Alessandro Villa nonetheless called it the least showy around, pressed against the slopes of Monterobbio and hidden in the shade of its vineyards. In 1928 the comune absorbed Paderno d'Adda and Imbersago and changed its name twice, to Robbiate Paderno and then Paderno Robbiate, until both broke away again after the war. The rationalist architect Franco Albini was born here.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Robbiate, 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.