Patron saint festival In 314 days
Feast of Sant'Alessandro
📅 Every year, on 26 August
On 26 August Briona, a municipality of 1,234 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patron Sant'Alessandro.
The name comes from Brigodunum, a Latinised Celtic word for a fortress on a height, and the coat of arms says the same, with a silver castle: the castle of Briona. The village sits where the Novara plain rises into hills, along the Roggia Mora.
The church of Sant'Alessandro, by the cemetery, grew in two stages: the northern part dates from the eleventh century, while the nave and the southern aisle were finished in the last quarter of the twelfth. At the hamlet of Proh a single-arched medieval bridge crosses the Roggia Mora: it was the only way over, so tolls were collected there. Today it stands abandoned.
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Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 300 m Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Parco GruBrìa 📍 Seregno · 800 m The farmland and woodland park between Seregno and northern Milan, along the Villoresi canal, created in 2019. Parco Lago Nord 📍 Paderno Dugnano · 5.2 km The park created from an old quarry in Paderno Dugnano, with two small lakes and a waterfall fed by the Villoresi canal. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Parco Borromeo 📍 Cesano Maderno · 5.3 km The park of Palazzo Arese Borromeo in Cesano Maderno: Italian garden, rose beds and the dromedary fountain. Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 5.4 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park.