Patron saint festival In 300 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Vetto, a municipality of 1,956 inhabitants in the province of Reggio Emilia, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
Vetto is the least populated municipality in the province of Reggio Emilia, and it sits on the right bank of the Enza, in an Apennine cut by torrents: at Atticola the water has carved a real canyon in the limestone, in miniature. The village is not one place but many small settlements, and each has its ancient church: the one at Rosano is recorded as early as 1112, the one at Cola in 1150, the one at Gottano appears in documents of 1213 and has a medieval bell tower.
The other thing that repeats from hamlet to hamlet is the tower house: at Legoreccio there is one built by the Rabotti in the sixteenth century, beside the fifteenth-century Casa dei Terzi and the seventeenth-century court of the Da Palude; at Castellaro one was raised where a small fort of 1313 had stood; others are at Rosano, at Piagnolo and at Spigone. Among the oratories, the one at Gottano is called the Ants' oratory, and the one at Sole Sotto was already there at the time of the plague of 1632; the church at Crovara keeps an Annunciation painted by pupils of Guercino.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Vetto 1
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🍝 The flavours of Vetto
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 Vetto
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Vetto, 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.