Patron saint festival In 189 days
Saint George, patron of Siliqua
📅 Every year, on 23 April
Siliqua celebrates Saint George on 23 April.
Siliqua has 3,997 inhabitants in the valley of the Cixerri, and the name comes from the Latin siliqua, the pod, the carob; in Campidanese the same word means a segment. Above the village, on a hill declared a natural monument, stands the castle of Acquafredda, which takes its name from the spring that rises up there. It appears on the municipal coat of arms, and it is the monument of the town.
The castle was built by the Lacon-Massa marquises, the last judges of Cagliari; when the giudicato fell in 1258 it passed to the Pisan della Gherardesca, the family of that count Ugolino whom Dante puts in the thirty-third canto of the Inferno. Acquafredda was part of a chain of fortresses that could see one another: Gioiosaguardia at Villamassargia, Baratuli between Monastir and Ussana, San Michele at Cagliari. In 1785 it was redeemed by Victor Amadeus III of Savoy. Since 1872 the village has had its station on the line to Iglesias.
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Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 2.9 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 4.1 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Chiesa di Santa Maria al Carrobiolo 📍 Monza · 4.8 km Church of Santa Maria al Carrobiolo in Monza, with works by Peterzano and Moncalvo, vault frescoed 1707-1709. Chiesa di San Pietro Martire 📍 Monza · 4.8 km San Pietro Martire in Monza, 14th-century church for the Dominican killed in 1252, with a 15th-century cloister. Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 5.1 km Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Duomo di Monza 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Monza Cathedral, founded by Queen Theodelinda around 595, home of the Iron Crown.