Patron saint festival In 305 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Cinzano, a municipality of 375 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
Cinzano, Cinsan in Piedmontese, sits on its hill east of Turin. In the tenth century Otto I granted the village in fief to the archbishops of Turin, and Frederick I confirmed it in 1159. A fifteenth-century map shows the church next to the ricetto, the fortified enclosure.
The Della Chiesa marquises bought up its houses to pull them down and lay gardens around the castle, by then a summer residence. Ludovico Della Chiesa, who had inherited the title but not the castle, bought it back and gave it battlements copied from the oldest tower. After the war it was a restaurant, then a medical-educational institute, and in 1968 was divided into flats.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Legnano · 2.1 km Medieval castle on an Olona island, once the convent of San Giorgio, with the Lampugnani keep of 1437-1445. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Legnano · 2.6 km Legnano's oldest church, rebuilt in 1590 and enlarged in 1740, with paintings by the Lampugnani. Basilica di San Magno 📍 Legnano · 2.8 km Renaissance basilica of the Bramante school built from 1504 to 1513, with Bernardino Luini's polyptych. Chiesa di Santa Rita 📍 Legnano · 3.2 km Church of the Purification, later Santa Rita, annexed to the Melzi institute, with Lampugnani frescoes. Museo civico Guido Sutermeister 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Legnano's archaeological museum, set up in 1929, with finds from the Copper Age to the Lombards and the Sala collection. Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Lombard Romanesque church of 1902 at Legnanello, with a Byzantine altar of Carrara marble and mosaics of 1923.