Patron saint festival In 98 days
Feast of Saint Vincent
📅 Every year, on 22 January
On 22 January Saint-Vincent celebrates Saint Vincent of Saragossa, who gives the town its name and his own to its 12th-century Romanesque church.
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In 1770 the physician Jean-Baptiste Perret found the mineral spring that changed the town's fortunes. A century later Saint-Vincent was billing itself as the Riviera of the Alps: the Fons Salutis spa was linked to the centre by funicular, and the Grand Hotel Billia supplied the Belle Époque backdrop. The Casino de la Vallée has been dealing cards since 1946.
Older layers survive underneath the resort. The Romanesque parish church of the twelfth century sits on a pre-Romanesque crypt, and traces of the Roman bridge over the Cillian torrent still mark the route of the via delle Gallie. The town of 4,654 has hosted Italy's oldest journalism award, the Premio Saint-Vincent, since 1948.
The Saint-Vincent guide
What to see 3
Ponte romano di Saint-Vincent · Museo mineralogico e paleontologico del Cenacolo Italo Mus · Museo parrocchiale di Saint-Vincent
Where to stay 24
24 places to stay · top rated: Hotel Rascard 9.3 · Bijou Hotel 9.1
Events & festivals 1
Next up: Feast of Saint Vincent, Friday 22 January
Getting there
Nearest airport: Torino Caselle, 61 km away
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What to see in Saint-Vincent
Ponte romano di Saint-Vincent Collapsed in 1839, the Roman bridge over the Cillian remains a major work of the via delle Gallie. 
Museo mineralogico e paleontologico del Cenacolo Italo Mus 750 minerals and 170 fossils gathered since 1978 by the Cenacolo Italo Mus, with the Green Stones pavilion. 
Museo parrocchiale di Saint-Vincent A Flagellation painted on glass in 1561 and the treasury of the Romanesque church of San Vincenzo. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
Near Saint-Vincent
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Saint-Vincent, but an easy day trip away.
Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 24 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 24 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 24 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 24 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.