Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Matthew
📅 Every year, on 21 September
On 21 September Cannara celebrates Saint Matthew; that same month, since 1981, the town has also held the Onion Festival, dedicated to its most famous product.
In 1221 Francis of Assisi founded the Third Order here at Cannara, the order of lay people, and clothed the first man who followed him: Lucio Modestini, a local.
The town sat among the marshes, and its name comes from the reed that grew there: on the coat of arms a griffin grips a cut reed in its claws. The griffin is Perugia's, and the people of Cannara won the right to use it when they submitted to the city in 1291 in exchange for protection against Assisi. From 1424 to 1648 they were a fief of the Baglioni; today the 4,308 residents live on the left bank of the Topino, in the middle of the Umbrian valley.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Cannara, but an easy day trip away.
Chiesa di Santa Maria 📍 Cantù · 12 km The octagonal seventeenth-century church built for the Benedictine nuns of Cantù, beside today's town hall. chiesa dei Santi Materno e Lucia (complesso) 📍 Lecco · 12 km The friary of Fra Cristoforo from The Betrothed, in Pescarenico, with a canvas by Cerano. Basilica di San Nicolò 📍 Lecco · 12 km Lecco's principal church, with its 96-metre neo-Gothic bell tower built on a Spanish bastion. Mura di Lecco 📍 Lecco · 12 km The triangular Visconti walls that enclosed Lecco, of which the Torre Viscontea and the Vallo survive. villa Manzoni 📍 Lecco · 13 km Alessandro Manzoni's family home in Lecco, now a Manzoni museum and art gallery. chiesa di San Giuseppe al Caleotto 📍 Lecco · 13 km The tent-shaped church of the Caleotto in Lecco, in reinforced concrete with parabolic arches, from 1951.