Patron saint festival In 257 days
Feast of Saint Peter
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Careggine, a municipality of 584 inhabitants in the province of Lucca, celebrates its patron Saint Peter with the procession.
Careggine is the least populated municipality in the province of Lucca, high on the flank of the Apuan Alps that looks towards the Garfagnana. Around 720 a nobleman from Lucca had a chapel built here to Saint Peter; by the twelfth century it had become one of the oldest pievi in the Garfagnana, and from up there was administered the hospice of Isola Santa, where travellers crossing from Versilia to the Serchio valley found shelter.
The local lords, whom a document of 988 calls the Nobiles de Caricino, controlled the roads of the Serchio valley for centuries, and won privileges from both the emperor and the pope by siding each time with whoever suited them. Then the village changed hands constantly — Malaspina, Florence, Pisa, Lucca — until in 1446 a popular revolt drove out the Florentines and the Garfagnana passed to the Este.
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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.