Solemnity of Sant'Abbondio, patron of the city and Diocese of Como…

Como's patron saint is celebrated on 31 August, preceded by first Vespers on the evening of the 30th.

The services run between the Basilica di Sant'Abbondio and the Cathedral. These are two days of liturgy rather than a street festival, so most of it happens inside the churches.

Nearby: places, experiences, services

Distances as the crow flies from where the event is held.

Museums & culture
Giuseppe Garibaldi Historical Museum, Como
Como's Risorgimento and twentieth century in Palazzo Olginati, where Garibaldi stayed in 1866: from the Five Days of 1848 to San Fermo and the world wars, with the Olginati drawing rooms and a Neapolitan crib.
right here
Museums & culture
Paolo Giovio Archaeological Museum, Como
Prehistoric and Roman Como in Palazzo Giovio: from the Prestino stele to the horsemen frieze, with nineteenth-century collections from Egypt and Greece.
100 m
Attractions
Porta Torre
Como's medieval gate, forty metres high: since 1192 the way into the walled town from Milan.
150 m
Museums & culture
Pinacoteca Civica, Palazzo Volpi
From Romanesque capitals to Como's abstract painters, in a seventeenth-century palace inside the walled town.
150 m
Attractions
Palazzo Cernezzi
The sixteenth- and seventeenth-century palace that has been Como's town hall since 1853, with its arcaded courtyard.
200 m
Attractions
Garibaldi Monument, Como
Vincenzo Vela's bronze Garibaldi on Piazza Vittoria in Como, unveiled in 1889 on the spot where the Austrians surrendered in 1848.
250 m

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Solemnity of Sant'Abbondio, patron of the city and Diocese of Como

Giuseppe Garibaldi Historical Museum, Como

Paolo Giovio Archaeological Museum, Como

Porta Torre

Pinacoteca Civica, Palazzo Volpi

Palazzo Cernezzi

Garibaldi Monument, Como

Como... che spettacolo!

Borghi in Festa

Fiera di Sant'Abbondio

Como Book Fair