Patron saint festival In 123 days
Saint Juliana, patron of the land of the Agogna Morta
📅 Every year, on 16 February
Borgolavezzaro celebrates Saint Juliana on 16 February.
This is the southernmost commune of its province, wedged into the Lomellina: it borders the province of Pavia to the south, the east and the west. The land is all plain, crossed by the Agogna, the Arbogna, the Neralo and the Ri, and the crop that rules it is rice.
The borgo was founded around 1255 as a free borough, in the time of the podestà Peracha Lavezarius. The parish church was designed in 1858 by Alessandro Antonelli and finished in 1862: a single nave and a portico with four granite columns. The bell tower, though, is older than the church it belongs to, being of the seventeenth century.
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chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo 📍 Luni · 400 m Rothari levelled the Byzantine chapel; in the eleventh century Nicola rebuilt on its highest point. santuario di Nostra Signora del Mirteto 📍 Luni · 1.1 km In 1537 a painting wept tears of blood: from that grew the sanctuary above Ortonovo. chiesa di San Lorenzo 📍 Luni · 1.3 km Built between 1621 and 1645 on the ruins of a castle, a perpetual abbey since 1714. chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km Three naves on eight columns of Carrara marble, under a portal carved in 1671. Palazzo Amati Ingolotti Cornelio 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km A marchese rebuilt it for his duchess wife; its sixteenth-century cellars now pour the local wine. Luna 📍 Luni · 2.9 km Rome's marble port: forum, theatre and an amphitheatre for 7,000, at the mouth of the Magra.