Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Montecreto, a municipality of 1,000 inhabitants in the province of Modena, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
Montecreto stands at nine hundred metres, perched around the church of San Giovanni, above the Scoltenna valley in the Frignano. The castle belonged to the Gualandelli, who in 1205 handed it over to the commune of Modena while remaining masters of the village until 1277, the year the whole Frignano finally surrendered to Modena. By the end of the sixteenth century the settlement had already taken the shape it has today: a plan of closed courtyards, which was not an aesthetic choice but a defensive one.
The village lies inside a chestnut wood, and has built its identity on it: the Parco dei Castagni hosts the chestnut festival on the last weekend of October. The most awaited event, however, is another, and by now has several decades behind it: the Palio degli Asini, in which the village's six contrade race on six donkeys to win the banner of the Madonna del Trogolino. In the territory there are also old mines, and in the village a museum called the House of the Stone Lions.
The Montecreto guide
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Montecreto 1
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🍝 The flavours of Montecreto
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 Montecreto
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Montecreto, but an easy day trip away.
Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 200 m Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 2.8 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. viadotto Torrente Sori 📍 Sori · 5.5 km 105 metres above the valley: the Dywidag cantilever system made its Italian debut here in 1966. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Bargagli · 6.0 km Traso's parish church, dedicated to Milan's bishop in Genoese country. chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 5.9 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 6.1 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down