Patron saint festival
Holy Mary Immaculate and Saint Zeno, patrons of the town of the Visconti castle
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of October
Cassano d'Adda celebrates Holy Mary Immaculate and Saint Zeno on the first Sunday of October.
In 1158, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa marched through here; by 1799, it was Russian General Suvorov's turn. For centuries, Cassano d'Adda acted as the volatile frontier between the Duchy of Milan and the Republic of Venice. Thanks to its strategic river crossing, this town of 18,552 residents became a recurring battlefield for European powers, including Napoleon Bonaparte.
The armies have long since vanished from the right bank of the Adda. Now enclosed within the Adda Nord Park, the municipality forms a quiet border between the Milan and Bergamo provinces. With its own railway station, Cassano is a highly practical starting point for tracing Lombardy's historical waterways.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Cassano d'Adda, but an easy day trip away.
Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.