Piazza dei Martiri is one of Italy's largest squares, a Renaissance rectangle the Pio family — lords of Carpi for three centuries — drew as their calling card: their castle-turned-museum on one side, the long portico still hosting trade on the other. Knitwear did the rest: Carpi's textile district has dressed the fashion labels for decades.
A few kilometres away, the Fossoli camp — from which Primo Levi too was deported — is now a place of national memory, completed by the Museum of the Deportee inside the castle. Lambrusco and tortelli keep up the Emilian end.
Near Carpi
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
