Patron saint festival In 304 days
Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Roch, patrons of the land of the Parco dei Mulini
📅 Every year, on 15 and 16 August
Canegrate celebrates Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Roch on 15 and 16 August.
The arms show a dog walking behind a grate, but that is only a play on the name: strip off the suffix -ate, common in Lombard place names, and what is left is Cà negrate, blackened houses. Other readings point to Latin cannetum, a reed bed, or to a Celtic root; the grate may instead come from the arms of the Canegra, a Lombard family probably from here.
In the Santa Colomba quarter, excavations in the fifties uncovered a cemetery of about two hundred graves and many bronze objects, dated to around 1200 BC: hence the Canegrate culture, named after people who probably came down into the Po plain through the Swiss alpine passes. A Napoleonic decree of 1809 suppressed the neighbouring comune of San Giorgio su Legnano and absorbed it into Canegrate; later the two swapped pieces of land.
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Risotto alla Milanese
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Events & festivals 1
Next up: Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Roch, patrons of the land of the Parco dei Mulini, Sunday 15 August
Getting there
Nearest airport: Milano Malpensa, 17 km away
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