Patron saint festival In 290 days
Feast of San Germano
📅 Every year, on 31 July
On 31 July Senna Lodigiana, a municipality of 1,997 inhabitants in the province of Lodi, celebrates its patron Saint Germanus of Auxerre (san Germano d'Auxerre).
At Corte Sant'Andrea, today a hamlet of Senna Lodigiana, you cross the Po. Sigeric, archbishop of Canterbury, crossed it too, on his way back from Rome around 990, and noted the stage: the transitus Padi of the via Francigena is here, and the Francigena still runs through the comune. But the village mattered even earlier: between 915 and 917 three diplomas of emperor Berengar I were drawn up in a Curte Sinna, which means that the imperial court was here.
Senna has other distant connections. In 1880 don Enrico Pozzoli was born here, the priest who in 1936 would baptise the future pope Francis. And the municipal coat of arms, recognised in that same 1936, had the fascio littorio in its chief: after the war it was replaced by the emblem of the Republic, and in the most recent versions the chief has been removed altogether.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Senna Lodigiana, but an easy day trip away.
Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.