Patron saint festival In 8 days
Feast of Saint Moderannus
📅 Every year, on 22 October
On 22 October Berceto celebrates its patron Saint Moderannus; the town hosts the treasury museum of Berceto Cathedral.
In 718 the bishop of Rennes, Moderannus, was going to Rome carrying relics of Saint Remigius bought at Reims. At the Cisa pass he hung them on a tree while he rested, and setting off again he forgot them; when he came back the branch had grown too high, and it bent down only when he promised to leave the relics here. The following year the Lombard king Liutprand founded a monastery on the spot.
Two and a half centuries later the archbishop of Canterbury Sigeric travelled the same road the other way, and in his list of stages he wrote Berceto down as the thirty-third: Sce Moderanne, that is, under the Breton bishop's name. The cathedral dedicated to him is Romanesque, of the twelfth century; in one chapel a glass chalice older than the year one thousand is kept.
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🍝 The flavours of Berceto
Prosciutto di Parma pork leg and sea salt, aged at least twelve months
Only Italian pork and sea salt, aged for at least twelve months: Prosciutto di Parma has held Protected Designation of Origin status since 1996.
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abbazia di Valserena 📍 Parma · 21 km Abbey of Valserena near Parma, founded in 1298, a university museum site since 2007. certosa di Parma 📍 Parma · 23 km The charterhouse of Stendhal's title, now a police school and rarely open. arco di San Lazzaro 📍 Parma · 25 km Arch of San Lazzaro in Parma, built in 1628 on via Emilia Est, restored in 2005. chiesa di San Francesco del Prato 📍 Parma · 25 km The Gothic Franciscan church that was Parma's prison for two centuries. palazzo Cusani 📍 Parma · 25 km The Parma palace that was noble house, university, mint and house of music.