Patron saint festival In 53 days
Saint Nicholas of Bari, patron of Camposanto
📅 Every year, on 6 December
Camposanto celebrates Saint Nicholas of Bari on 6 December, in the church dedicated to him.
The name has nothing to do with cemeteries: Campus Sanctus appears in 1445 and comes, almost certainly, from the Santi, a noble Ferrarese family who at the end of the fourteenth century received large estates in the Modena country from the Este. On the arms, instead, there are two crossed swords, and those recall a battle.
On the eighth of February 1743, in the middle of the War of the Austrian Succession, the Spaniards of general Gages clashed here with the Austro-Piedmontese of field marshal von Traun, and had to retreat. Today the comune keeps its acetaia inside the Torre Ferraresi, and along the embankment of the old Bologna-Verona railway runs the Ciclovia del Sole.
The Camposanto guide
What to eat here 2
Tagliatelle al Ragù · Aceto Balsamico di Modena
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Events & festivals 1
Next up: Saint Nicholas of Bari, patron of Camposanto, Sunday 6 December
Getting there
Nearest airport: Bologna Marconi, 32 km away
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Camposanto 1
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🍝 The flavours of Camposanto
Aceto Balsamico di Modena cooked grape must and wine vinegar, dense and sweet-and-sour
Cooked grape must and wine vinegar aged in wooden barrels: Aceto Balsamico di Modena has held Protected Geographical Indication status since 2009.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Camposanto, 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.