Patron saint festival In 288 days
Feast of San Vittore
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August Agrate Conturbia, a municipality of 1,554 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patron San Vittore.
The comune holds together two villages on the low hills south of Lake Maggiore, Agrate and Conturbia, each with its own castle. The old name, Agredade, is traced to the Roman personal name Acrius with the suffix -atum; others prefer agr-et-atum, place of fields. The royal court later passed to the canons of San Giulio, a gift of the emperor Otto I.
At Agrate stands the baptistery, the chief building here. The lower part, circular, is usually dated to about 930 and rests on the foundations of an earlier building, probably a small Roman shrine; the octagonal drum above, of squared stones with hanging arches in threes to a side and narrow double-splayed windows, is put at about 1120.
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Chiesa di San Pietro 📍 Cento · 8.9 km One of Cento's oldest churches, thirteenth-century, with a five-bay portico: three Guercino altarpieces once hung here. Basilica di San Biagio 📍 Cento · 9.1 km Cento's Baroque cathedral church, reopened in 2018 after the earthquake: an elliptical dome and two Guercino paintings. Rocca di Cento 📍 Cento · 9.4 km The fortress the Bolognese built in Cento from 1378: a keep, three corner towers and the cells used until 1969. Centro di documentazione del mondo agricolo ferrarese 📍 Ferrara · 16 km Museum of Ferrara's farming world at San Bartolomeo in Bosco, opened 1981, over ten thousand objects. Este Castle 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Built in 1385 around four imposing towers, this moated medieval fortress is the Renaissance centerpiece of Ferrara. cattedrale di San Giorgio 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Romanesque below, Gothic above: Nicholaus's façade, the merchants' loggias and the Months in the museum.