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Feast of Saint Lucy
📅 Every year, on 13 December
On 13 December Motta Santa Lucia celebrates its patroness Saint Lucy, whose name became part of the town's own name; the town also has a baronial palace.
When in the fifteenth century the king made the village a fief of the count of Martirano, the people would have none of it and defended themselves with arms. It went on for years: in the end, in 1514, starving, they pulled down their own castle and surrendered to four hundred foot soldiers led by the governor of Calabria. Many had already fled to Scigliano, and the surrender laid down that no one should go and fetch them back.
The village was called Motta di Porchia; in 1638 an earthquake destroyed it, and it was rebuilt in the districts of San Nicola and Santa Lucia, taking the name it has now. In 1697 the people fought again, this time for the diritto di sbarro, the right to gather acorns and chestnuts freely in the woods of the fief: a local canon, Antonio Marasco, made a poem of it.
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Porta Mosa 📍 Cremona · 7.3 km The last gate left in Cremona, medieval in origin, with a sixteenth-century archway and the bastion of San Giorgio. Chiesa di San Sisto 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Renaissance church in Piacenza that kept Raphael's Sistine Madonna, with the tomb of Margaret of Austria. Palazzo Farnese 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Great Farnese palace of Piacenza designed by Vignola, home to the civic museums with the Etruscan liver and Botticelli. Chiesa delle Benedettine 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Deconsecrated Baroque church of 1681 built by the Farnese, with a double church for nuns and faithful and a great dome. Basilica di San Savino 📍 Piacenza · 21 km Romanesque basilica in Piacenza with a Baroque façade of 1721, a crypt with zodiac mosaics and Saint Sabinus's relics. Violin Museum 📍 Cremona · 24 km Housed in Cremona's Palazzo dell'Arte, this museum displays masterpieces by Stradivari and the city's greatest luthiers.