Patron saint festival In 283 days
Saint Anne, patron of Busnago
📅 Every year, on 26 July
Busnago celebrates Saint Anne on 26 July.
The name Busnago first turns up at the foot of a document about something else: in 873 the deed by which Ansperto, archbishop of Milan, took possession of property at Cavenago was authenticated by witnesses, one of whom signed as Rotecario de Buvonaco, that is, of Busnago. The village lies between the Adda to the east and the Molgora to the south-west; its arms show, on silver, a red lion holding a single-towered castle in its forepaws, for the medieval castle that once stood here.
Religious life began early: a Benedictine nunnery dedicated to Saint Peter in the twelfth century, then in 1344 a house of Humiliati nuns at the Corteana farmstead, under the Santa Margherita monastery in Monza; the little church is still there, hardly ever used. In 1595 the first Status Animarum, the parish register, counted 339 souls. When Fascism arrived, twelve of the fifteen town councillors resigned in protest, and in 1931 squadristi killed Angelo Ripamonti, who kept the village inn.
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chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.