Patron saint festival In 29 days
Feast of Saint Antoninus the Martyr
📅 Every year, on 13 November
On 13 November Lozza celebrates its patron Saint Antoninus the Martyr, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
The village name means more or less manure: from the Celtic lossa, or the Latin lutum, mud, and it referred to the sludge of earth and vegetable waste heaped at the roadside to rot and become fertiliser. The word has survived all around: in Lombard loegia is manured earth, in the Ticino slozz means soaking wet, and in Corsica lozzu is slime.
In Roman times the road from Milan to Lugano by way of Varese passed through here. From 1648 the village belonged to the Castiglioni, who built a small summer house here, still wedged among the houses. The Lozza railway halt, opened in 1915 on the Valmorea line, lost its passenger service in 1938 and was closed the following year.
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castello di San Lorenzo 📍 Gattinara · 6.2 km At 540 metres, the ruins of the castle Vercelli raised in 1187 over the mouths of the Valsesia chiesa di San Pietro 📍 Gattinara · 7.7 km The grand chancellor of Charles V asked to be buried underfoot, out of humility Villa Cavalleri 📍 Gattinara · 7.4 km Twenty oak barrels of a hundred hectolitres, then a storm and a passage to Argentina chiesa di Santa Marta 📍 Gattinara · 7.8 km Beneath the baroque, frescoes of 1460 survive: processions of notables and common folk chiesa di Santa Maria del Rosario 📍 Gattinara · 8.0 km Gerolamo Giovenone's triptych of the early 1530s, above the niche of the Virgin Torre delle Castelle 📍 Gattinara · 7.9 km Gattinara's symbol: an eleventh-century tower between two walled enclosures, now among vineyards