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Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Savogna d'Isonzo celebrates its patron Saint Martin; the municipal territory preserves the Castello di Rubbia.
Sovodnje, the Slovene name, means «confluence»: here the Vipacco runs into the Isonzo, and most of the inhabitants are Slovene-speaking. On the Roman road between Aquileia and Ljubljana there was a bridge, of timber and of calcarenite quarried no more than five kilometres away: when the river is low its remains can still be seen.
In 238 the people of Aquileia, frightened by Maximinus Thrax marching on Italy, pulled that bridge down; the river was in spate with the thaw, so he had his soldiers requisition the peasants' barrels and crossed on those. On the Karst the hillforts are left: the one on the Brestovec, lived in between 1600 and 1300 before Christ, has a double wall, a hundred and sixty metres round the outside and seventy-five inside. They were wrecked by the First World War, whose front ran here.
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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.