Patron saint festival In 26 days
Feast of Saint Theodore the Martyr
📅 Every year, on 9 November
On 9 November San Mango sul Calore celebrates its patron Saint Theodore the Martyr; the municipal territory is home to the Ponte di Annibale.
On the twenty-third of November 1980 the earthquake killed sixty-five people here, injured a hundred and seventy-three and left seven hundred and thirteen without a house. To rebuild the village it took money raised in Canada by emigrants from here and by their associations: out of it came thirty-six houses that everybody still calls the Villaggio Canadese, the Canadian village.
Over the Calore there is a bridge of brick, mortar and cobbles taken from the river, going back to about a hundred years before Christ: they call it the Roman bridge, the Devil's bridge or Hannibal's bridge, and it carried the old road that went down to meet the Appian Way. On the arms is San Teodoro, in the pose copied from the ancient seals of the universitas.
The San Mango sul Calore guide
🎉 Festivals and feasts in San Mango sul Calore 1
No events match these filters.
Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
Near San Mango sul Calore
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside San Mango sul Calore, but an easy day trip away.
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.