Patron saint festival In 299 days
Saint Lawrence, patron of Baiso
📅 Every year, on 10 August
Baiso celebrates Saint Lawrence on 10 August, in the church dedicated to him.
The name appears for the first time in 954, and it appears in a poem: it is the Bagisium of the Life of Matilda written by Donizo, in the passage on the siege of Canossa. The Baisi family took its name from the village, and not the other way round. In 1315 the Book of Hearths counted here thirty-seven families that owned land and another forty-six that merely lived on it.
The arms are not a symbol but a landscape: the village strung along the steep badlands, with the parish church and the castle rebuilt on the ruins of the one from Matilda's time. The comune itself, though, was gone for half a century: in 1807 Baiso was demoted to a hamlet of Carpineti, and it was the Farini decree of 1859 that made it a comune again, on the eve of the Kingdom of Italy.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Baiso 1
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🍝 The flavours of Baiso
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 Baiso
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Baiso, but an easy day trip away.
certosa di Parma 📍 Parma · 8.3 km The charterhouse of Stendhal's title, now a police school and rarely open. Parma Baptistery 📍 Parma · 11 km Benedetto Antelami’s pink marble masterpiece, a European landmark bridging Romanesque and Gothic design in Parma. arco di San Lazzaro 📍 Parma · 9.8 km Arch of San Lazzaro in Parma, built in 1628 on via Emilia Est, restored in 2005. chiesa di San Sepolcro 📍 Parma · 11 km The Holy Sepulchre canons' church on the via Emilia, with a coffered ceiling. abbazia di San Giovanni Evangelista 📍 Parma · 11 km Correggio's second dome in Parma, and the Benedictine pharmacy with its jars in rows. teatro Farnese 📍 Parma · 12 km The Farnese wooden theatre in the Pilotta, inaugurated with a naval battle in the stalls.