Patron saint festival In 324 days
Feast of San Germano
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of September
On the first Sunday of September Lignana, a municipality of 579 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron San Germano.
Lignana lies in the Vercelli plain, on the historic Via Francigena route, which comes from Lamporo and Ronsecco and goes on to Vercelli. The village was a fief of the Corradi. In the hamlet of Veneria, inside the farmstead still standing and in use, Giuseppe De Santis shot the main scenes of Bitter Rice in 1949.
The parish church is dedicated to Saints Germanus and Christopher: small arches run under the gable of the pale front, the yellow flank stretches back to an older brick block, and the bell tower rises behind with its spire. The castle still stands in the village.
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Città Alta and the Venetian Walls 📍 Bergamo · 18 km A 6,200-meter wall built by Venice in the 16th century, this UNESCO World Heritage site encloses Bergamo Alta. Accademia Carrara 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The count founded the gallery and the school together, so pupils could copy from life. Teatro Gaetano Donizetti 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The theatre born where wooden huts once stood, now Donizetti's home. basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Bergamo · 18 km The church without a façade in Bergamo's upper town: Campione's lions and the intarsias designed by Lotto. chiesa dei Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The lower Bergamo church with the Martinengo altarpiece, Lotto's largest. chiesa di Santo Spirito 📍 Bergamo · 17 km Bergamo church called «of the Tasso», with Lorenzo Lotto's 1521 altarpiece and the via Pignolo chapels.