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Feast of Saint Dalmatius
📅 Every year, on 5 December
On 5 December Quargnento celebrates its patron Saint Dalmatius, to whom the minor basilica is dedicated.
Quargnento probably began as a Roman outpost, later the bishop of Asti's land; in 935 kings Berengar and Adalbert granted it a monthly market at the calends. It was one of eight settlements that helped found Alessandria, sending forty families. Frederick Barbarossa reportedly kept his headquarters here; his siege failed and the castle burned, leaving only the dialect name an castè.
The relics of the martyr Dalmazio came from Pedona, harried by Saracens, and stayed: their church is the only basilica in the diocese of Alessandria, a title given by John Paul II in 1992. The brick bell tower, with its clock, is seen from far off. The painter Carlo Carrà was born here.
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Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 2.9 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 4.1 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Chiesa di Santa Maria al Carrobiolo 📍 Monza · 4.8 km Church of Santa Maria al Carrobiolo in Monza, with works by Peterzano and Moncalvo, vault frescoed 1707-1709. Chiesa di San Pietro Martire 📍 Monza · 4.8 km San Pietro Martire in Monza, 14th-century church for the Dominican killed in 1252, with a 15th-century cloister. Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 5.1 km Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Duomo di Monza 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Monza Cathedral, founded by Queen Theodelinda around 595, home of the Iron Crown.