Lonate Pozzolo lies between heathland and the Ticino, at the south-west tip of the province of Varese. The name first appears in 973, in a land swap between Aupaldo, bishop of Novara, and one Celsone of Lonate, son of Leone; by the early thirteenth century the village had its own consuls, statutes and notaries. Its arms carry a red well-curb over three silver crescents on red.
The parish church of Sant'Ambrogio was rebuilt on an octagonal plan by a local man, Antonio Bodio, known as Antonio da Lonate, a pupil of Bramante whose best-known work is Vigevano cathedral. In 1636, near the hamlet of Tornavento, the Spanish who held the Milanese and the French-Piedmontese fought a battle that drove out the richest families and left the village to farming for two centuries. Between the wars the airfield Gabriele D'Annunzio named Campo della Promessa worked here; Malpensa descends from that flying tradition.
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Next up: Saint Ambrose, patron between the Lonate Carnival and the Caminàa da l'Ulia, Monday 7 December
Nearest airport: Milano Malpensa, 4 km away
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📅 Every year, on 7 December, with the Lonate Carnival and the Caminàa da l'Ulia night walk
Lonate Pozzolo celebrates Saint Ambrose on 7 December, in the church dedicated to him. The town also holds the Lonate Carnival, on the afternoon of Shrove Saturday under the Ambrosian rite with a parade of floats, and the Caminàa da l'Ulia, a spring night walk on the Saturday before Palm Sunday.
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