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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Porta Mosa 📍 Cremona · 7.3 km The last gate left in Cremona, medieval in origin, with a sixteenth-century archway and the bastion of San Giorgio. Chiesa di San Sisto 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Renaissance church in Piacenza that kept Raphael's Sistine Madonna, with the tomb of Margaret of Austria. Palazzo Farnese 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Great Farnese palace of Piacenza designed by Vignola, home to the civic museums with the Etruscan liver and Botticelli. Chiesa delle Benedettine 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Deconsecrated Baroque church of 1681 built by the Farnese, with a double church for nuns and faithful and a great dome. Basilica di San Savino 📍 Piacenza · 21 km Romanesque basilica in Piacenza with a Baroque façade of 1721, a crypt with zodiac mosaics and Saint Sabinus's relics. Violin Museum 📍 Cremona · 24 km Housed in Cremona's Palazzo dell'Arte, this museum displays masterpieces by Stradivari and the city's greatest luthiers.