Patron saint festival In 205 days
Saint Victor, patron of the Lombard necropolis
📅 Every year, on 8 May
Arsago Seprio celebrates Saint Victor on 8 May, in the basilica dedicated to him.
In the tenth century, in the house of one Dagiberto of Arsago, two brothers were born who both became bishops: Arnolfo II was archbishop of Milan from 998 to 1018, Landolfo bishop of Brescia from 1003. It is not an isolated case: the pieve of San Vittore at Arsago is held to be one of the earliest rural pievi of the Milanese archdiocese, and the others broke away from it one by one — Gallarate around 1050, then Mezzana, and from Mezzana that of Somma.
This is why within a few square kilometres four pievi can be counted: the first ones were not established near Milan but far from it, where an eye was needed to keep watch on the city's behalf. Of the old pieve there remain the basilica of San Vittore, Romanesque, which goes back to the ninth century, and the baptistery, built two centuries later. The village added the Seprio to its name only in 1948.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Legnano · 2.1 km Medieval castle on an Olona island, once the convent of San Giorgio, with the Lampugnani keep of 1437-1445. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Legnano · 2.6 km Legnano's oldest church, rebuilt in 1590 and enlarged in 1740, with paintings by the Lampugnani. Basilica di San Magno 📍 Legnano · 2.8 km Renaissance basilica of the Bramante school built from 1504 to 1513, with Bernardino Luini's polyptych. Chiesa di Santa Rita 📍 Legnano · 3.2 km Church of the Purification, later Santa Rita, annexed to the Melzi institute, with Lampugnani frescoes. Museo civico Guido Sutermeister 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Legnano's archaeological museum, set up in 1929, with finds from the Copper Age to the Lombards and the Sala collection. Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Lombard Romanesque church of 1902 at Legnanello, with a Byzantine altar of Carrara marble and mosaics of 1923.