Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Jerome
📅 Every year, on 30 September
On 30 September Cittanova celebrates Saint Jerome in the church dedicated to him; the town also hosts the National Stockfish Festival.
Cittanova was born of a proclamation: on the twelfth of August 1618 the prince of Gerace, Girolamo Grimaldi, ordered a new casale to be built where earthquakes had emptied the villages around, and whoever came to live there was granted exemptions. It was called Casalnuovo, and the houses were deliberately built very low, for fear of the shocks that would come back.
They came back. On the fifth of February 1783 the earthquake they call the Flagello here wiped out the town and killed two thousand and seventeen people out of five thousand five hundred and ninety, the princess Maria Teresa Grimaldi among them. Casalnuovo was rebuilt on the same spot, and in 1852 a decree of Ferdinand the Second gave it the name it still bears. On the coat of arms there is a pine: it was a real tree, as old as the town, burned by lightning in 1960.
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 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 · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.