Patron saint festival In 53 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas of Bari
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Ponzano Romano celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas of Bari; the municipal territory hosts the Abbazia di Sant'Andrea in Flumine.
Here the Tiber turns in bends so wide that one of them draws a flask, and the name has stuck. The village sits on a river terrace, and one piece of its territory is stranded on the floodplain, ringed by three other comuni. On the river there was a landing, still called Barca di Ponzano today: the abbey of Sant'Andrea in Flumine controlled it.
The Benedictines stayed here for a millennium, from the sixth century to 1546, when a bull of Paul III detached these lands and gave them to the abbey of Tre Fontane, held by cardinal Alessandro Farnese. In 1525 a plague brought by a detachment of soldiers even stopped the administration of justice: the village put itself under Saint Sebastian, and has carried him in procession on the first Sunday of June ever since.
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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.