Patron saint festival In 51 days
Saint Nicholas, patron of the land of the Pellice confluence
📅 Every year, on 6 December
Pancalieri celebrates Saint Nicholas on 6 December, in the church dedicated to him.
Pancalieri lies in the plain on the left bank of the Po, and the Angiale canal runs through it: mills once worked along its course. Two explanations of the name circulate: the hemp for ships' ropes that sailors called pancalere, or the "piano calante", the ground sloping down to the river.
This is the mint village: peppermint was introduced in 1865 by the pharmacist Chiaffredo Gamba, and the crop is distilled here in the stills known in Piedmontese as lambicc. Around 1533 Davide Rizzio was born here, musician and secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots; in 1884 cholera took many lives in the village.
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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.