Patron saint festival In 262 days
Saint Margaret, patron of the land of the Montagnola
📅 Every year, on the first Monday of July
Usmate Velate celebrates Saint Margaret on the first Monday of July.
Usmate Velate is Œuss Velàa in the Brianza dialect, and the first word comes from the Osio counts, lords here under Spanish rule: the village was sometimes called Osio. Gian Paolo Osio of that family, the seducer of the nun of Monza whom Manzoni recalls in The Betrothed, was summoned over a crime and never appeared; the castle of Usmate, where he was thought to be hiding, was razed to the foundations in 1608.
The arms stack the shields of the families that held power here: the hammer between two wings of the Ala and Ponzone, the three silver stars of the Osio, the silver and red chequy of the Barbiano di Belgioioso. Velate, given by king Berengar I to the Chapter of Monza in 920, was then Velate Milanese; Usmate joined it in 1869 as a formerly separate comune, and only in 1930 did the seat move and the name reach its present form.
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Near Usmate Velate
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Usmate Velate, but an easy day trip away.
Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.