Patron saint festival In 300 days
Saint Lawrence and the Mountain Gastronomy Fair
📅 Every year, on 10 August
Prignano sulla Secchia celebrates Saint Lawrence on 10 August, in the church dedicated to him together with Saint Michael the Archangel.
The name of Prignano is written in four imperial diplomas, from Charlemagne's of 781 to Henry II's of 1020, and it changes shape each time: Periniana, Perinianum, Prinianu, Pregnanum. It probably comes from the farm of one Perennius. The Rossenna torrent, which crosses the comune, is also a language border: on the left bank they speak the mountain dialect, on the right the hill one.
On the cliff above the Secchia, at Pescale, the palaeontologist Fernando Malavolti dug between 1937 and 1942 a Neolithic village: floors of huts of wood and clay, hearths, graves, pottery. Prignano is also a political anomaly: when the province of Modena went left, the Catholic Popolari won here, and in 1946 it was one of only two comuni of the province with a Christian Democrat majority.
The Prignano sulla Secchia guide
What to eat here 2
Tagliatelle al Ragù · Aceto Balsamico di Modena
Where to stay
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Events & festivals 1
Next up: Saint Lawrence and the Mountain Gastronomy Fair, Tuesday 10 August
Getting there
Nearest airport: Bologna Marconi, 49 km away
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Prignano sulla Secchia 1
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🍝 The flavours of Prignano sulla Secchia
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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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.