Patron saint festival In 285 days
Feast of Saint Anne
📅 Every year, on 26 July
On 26 July Bodio Lomnago, a municipality of 2,119 inhabitants in the province of Varese, celebrates its patroness Saint Anne (sant'Anna).
In 1863, on the lake of Varese in front of Bodio, three pile-dwelling stations were found: on 28 April the one at Bodio Centrale, also called «of the Coins» because 128 Roman coins came to light there, and on the first of December those of Desor and Keller. The finds — pottery, flint scrapers, arrowheads, bronze pins and dagger blades — tell of a village lived in from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. In 2011 the site of Bodio Centrale entered the UNESCO World Heritage list along with the other prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps.
The name of the comune, on the other hand, tells a more recent story. Bodio and Lomnago are two separate villages, one near the lake and one on the hill towards monte Rogorella; in 1928 Bodio was suppressed and absorbed by Lomnago. Eighteen years later, though, it was Lomnago that asked to change its name: since 1946 the comune has been called Bodio Lomnago, and the swallowed village is written first.
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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.