Patron saint festival In 305 days
Feast of Santa Maria Assunta
📅 Every year, on 15 August
On 15 August Frassinoro, a municipality of 1,997 inhabitants in the province of Modena, celebrates its patroness Santa Maria Assunta (Assumption of Mary).
Frassinoro is the municipality whose main village stands higher than any other in Emilia-Romagna, on the ridge between the valleys of the Dolo and the Dragone. Until 1069 there was only a chapel here with a building to shelter travellers, because the via Bibulca passed this way, the road Beatrice of Lorraine and her daughter Matilda of Canossa took to go from their lands around Reggio to those around Lucca. On 29 August 1071 mother and daughter founded a Benedictine abbey here, for the souls of Beatrice's two husbands and for the safety of Matilda.
The following year Beatrice gave the abbey the relics of the martyr Saint Claudius, who entered the church's title, and in 1077 the two women handed it over to the Holy See. Where the abbey stood there is now the parish church of Santa Maria e San Claudio. In the municipal arms the golden ash tree states the name, the mountain with the tree already appear on a sixteenth-century seal, and the cross with the word PAX comes from the Benedictines. Of the road towards Tuscany a curious mark is left on the map: part of San Pellegrino in Alpe is an exclave of Frassinoro inside the province of Lucca.
The Frassinoro guide
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Frassinoro 1
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🍝 The flavours of Frassinoro
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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Near Frassinoro
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Frassinoro, 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.