Patron saint festival In 256 days
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Castelveccana, a municipality of 2,000 inhabitants in the province of Varese, celebrates its patrons Saints Peter and Paul.
The name is two names glued together. The village was called Castello, then Castello Valtravaglia from 1863, and in 1928 Veccana was annexed to it: out of that came Castelveccana. On the coat of arms there is a silver castle with Guelph battlements behind four mountains rising out of the water, which is Lake Maggiore.
What turns up here, though, is of two kinds. Underground: around 2008 some fossil remains found in the comune's territory were classified as a Marcopoloichthys, a middle Triassic fish less than five centimetres long. Above ground: every summer, between the end of July and the beginning of August, the hamlet of Caldé hosts Tutto è Numero, one of the leading Italian festivals of mathematical culture and games; and at Nasca lived Michele Mari, who set his novel Verderame there.
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Prato della Valle 📍 Padua · 15 km At 90,000 square meters, this monumental elliptical square is one of Europe's largest, ringed by 78 stone statues. basilica di Sant'Antonio di Padova 📍 Padua · 16 km Padua made him a saint in under a year, and his little church is still inside the basilica. Orto botanico di Padova 📍 Padua · 15 km It was made against fraud: to tell the genuine medicinal plants from the fakes. Villa Giusti 📍 Padua · 14 km Villa Giusti, Padua, where the armistice ending the First World War was signed on 3 November 1918. basilica di Santa Giustina 📍 Padua · 15 km The eight-domed abbey on the Prato della Valle: the tomb of Saint Luke and the Veronese on the altar. chiesa di Santa Croce 📍 Padua · 15 km Padua's only rococo church, designed by a Somascan father.