Patron saint festival
Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian
📅 Every year, on 27 September
On 27 September Anela celebrates Saints Cosmas and Damian; the municipal territory also preserves the Sos Furrighesos necropolis.
Sos Furrighesos is a necropolis of eighteen domus de janas cut on three superimposed levels. They were reached by notches cut in the rock, and around the doors of the tombs runs a system of little channels that carried the rainwater away: they were there to keep the carvings, the dead and their grave goods dry.
On the thirty-first of July 1945 seven firefighting workers of the state forestry board died while putting out a fire on the village's common land: a plaque and a mass every year remember them. Anela, which had been the head of the curatoria of Goceano, was from 1478 a royal fief: it was run by the king's officials and not by a family of feudal lords, until the redemption of 1839.
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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.