Patron saint festival In 83 days
Saint Julian the Deacon, patron of the land of the Colle di Buccione
📅 Every year, on 7 January
Gozzano celebrates Saint Julian the Deacon on 7 January.
The name comes from the Latin Gaudianum, place of enjoyment, and from the same word seem to come local surnames such as Godi and Godio. The christening of the area is credited to the brothers Giulio and Giuliano, who are said to have built here their ninety-ninth place of worship.
The medieval village was made of two separate cores, the villa and the vicus, with the market square between them: from 919, by a diploma of Berengar I, a weekly market and a yearly fair were held there. On the hill to the east the castle, first named in 1015, held the palace of the bishops of Novara, a castle inside the castle. In 1928 Auzate and Bugnate, until then separate comuni, were merged in.
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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.