Patron saint festival In 303 days
Saints Hippolytus and Cassian, patrons of Rogeno
📅 Every year, on 13 August
Rogeno celebrates Saints Hippolytus of Rome and Cassian of Imola on 13 August, in the church dedicated to them.
The parents of Achille Ratti, the future Pope Pius XI, were from Rogeno, although he was born at Desio. He was seen in the village: he attended, together with Emilio Visconti Venosta, the unveiling of the bust dedicated to Giuseppe Gadda, the politician who had spent his last years here and who died in the family villa in 1901. In the parish church of Santi Cassiano e Ippolito a vestment of Ratti's is still kept, along with the relics of Saint Hippolytus, brought here in 1786 from the suppressed Milanese church of Santa Elisabetta.
The name comes from water: from aruggia, the late Latin word for an irrigation channel. The municipality stretches from the southern shore of the lake of Pusiano, where Casletto stands, to the eastern bank of the Lambro, where the hamlet of Maglio lies with its watermills, among them the Leone mill of the seventeenth century. Here Giacomo Fornoni lived until 2016, Olympic gold medallist in cycling at the Rome Games of 1960. Three thousand one hundred and ninety-seven inhabitants in the province of Lecco.
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Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 2.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. castello di Castellamonte 📍 Castellamonte · 16 km Seven gates in the curtain wall and a fief split into 271 points of jurisdiction. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Bard Fortress 📍 Bard · 19 km Rebuilt in the 19th century, this imposing Savoy fortress is a masterpiece of military engineering in the Aosta Valley. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times.