Patron saint festival In 124 days
Saints Faustinus and Jovita, patrons of the land of the Parco Adda Nord
📅 Every year, on 15 February
Brembate celebrates Saints Faustinus and Jovita on 15 February, in the church dedicated to them.
A deed of 962 lists among the holdings of Berengar II and his wife lands called Brembati inferior: the first time the village appears in writing, and the same charter names the Ecclesia sancti Victoris. The church still stands, Romanesque, on the bank of the Brembo, with a cave beneath it; it counted for so much that in the sixteenth century the village called itself Brembate San Vittore.
In 1483 the Duke of Calabria, allied with the Duke of Milan, attacked the town and levelled it. The present name is recent: until 1928 Brembate di Sotto and Grignano were separate comuni. The arms hold a maize cob and ears of wheat for a cereal-growing countryside, three five-rayed stars for the war dead, and at the base two gold pillars of unequal height: the arches of the bridge over the Brembo.
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Risotto alla Milanese
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Next up: Saints Faustinus and Jovita, patrons of the land of the Parco Adda Nord, Monday 15 February
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Nearest airport: Bergamo Orio al Serio, 14 km away
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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.