Patron saint festival In 73 days
Saint Anne, patron of December
📅 Every year, on 26 December; also celebrated on 26 July
Santo Stefano Ticino celebrates Saint Anne on 26 December. The feast is renewed on 26 July.
In 1650 Santo Stefano, which was a privately owned fief, bought its own independence for twelve hundred Milanese lire. The freedom lasted little more than twenty years: in 1672, crushed by debt, the village had to give it up and became once more a fief of the Borri, the family from which came Squarcino Borri, born here in 1230, who had obtained these lands for services rendered to the Visconti.
The Ticino is in the name, but the river is not: it flows in the neighbouring comune, at Magenta, and the territory of Santo Stefano does not touch it. The addition dates from 1862. The first nucleus of the village is said to have grown up towards the end of the twelfth century around a chapel standing alone in the fields; older still are the Roman finds, among them a cinerary urn that held a mirror, and the objects the writer Carlo Dossi dug up here in 1902.
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Patron saint festival In 285 days
Saint Anne, patron of July
📅 Every year, on 26 July; also celebrated on 26 December
Santo Stefano Ticino celebrates Saint Anne a second time on 26 July, after the first feast on 26 December.
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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.