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Saint Anthony of Padua, patron of Castrignano de' Greci
📅 Every year, on 23 August
Castrignano de' Greci celebrates Saint Anthony of Padua on 23 August.
Griko is spoken here, and Castrignano is one of the nine comuni of the Grecìa salentina. The Greek rite lasted until 1614: in the old mother church there was still the font for baptism by immersion, as that rite requires. Of that church two inscriptions with the date 1575 are left; the rest was pulled down in 1878 to build a larger one.
The name does not come from castrum, nor from the Greek kastron, as people believe: it comes from a Castrinius, the Roman to whom the estate was assigned; «de' Greci» serves to tell it apart from Castrignano del Capo. The new church is dedicated to sant'Antonio as well, for a grave danger the village escaped on the twenty-third of August 1898: the sources do not say what it was.
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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.