Patron saint festival In 295 days
Feast of Saint Sixtus
📅 Every year, on 6 August
On 6 August Colle d'Anchise, a municipality of 802 inhabitants in the province of Campobasso, celebrates its patron Saint Sixtus (san Sisto).
The village used to be called Cornachisio, then Coraccisi: names that sounded bad, and at some point someone tidied them into Anchise, like the father of Aeneas. On the coat of arms, though, there is no Trojan: there is a half-naked man sitting on a rock, blowing a horn.
The little church of Santa Margherita was put up over a Samnite temple, and it kept the temple's columns inside. Of the real castle, higher up, there remain a tower cut in two, a piece of gateway and two wells. The first document of the fief is from 1314, but it was the Lombards who founded the place. There are 802 residents.
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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.