Patron saint festival In 112 days
Saint Blaise, patron of Castel di Casio
📅 Every year, on 3 February
Castel di Casio celebrates Saint Blaise on 3 February.
On the twentieth of July 1211 Gislimerio, lord of Casio, swore allegiance to the Comune of Bologna in the palace of the local pieve. Bologna then closed the open village inside a stone wall and raised a tower over it: the vicus Casii became the castrum Casii. From then on it was one of Bologna's strongholds in the Apennines, seat of the podestà and of the Captains of the Mountains.
The comune's arms are carved on a stone of 1483 in the palace of the Captains of the Mountains, which is at Vergato: when the Captains' seat moved there, the coat of arms followed them and became Vergato's too. The medieval tower still rises above the roofs and can be seen from the whole Limentra valley; the village lived on the ridge road between Bologna and Florence, and part of Lake Suviana lies in its territory.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Castel di Casio, 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.