Patron saint festival In 26 days
Saint Martin of Tours, patron of Sovere
📅 Every year, on 11 November
Sovere celebrates Saint Martin of Tours on 11 November, in the church dedicated to him.
Sovere is a village cut in two by water: the Borlezza stream runs through the middle of it, and on the two banks stand the borgo San Martino and the borgo San Gregorio. The town's coat of arms brings together precisely the two things that hold the village together: the church of San Martino, founded beside the old medieval tower, and the stone bridge built in 1879 to link the two boroughs. The name appears for the first time in a document of the year 837, in the form Suberas.
On the mountain above the village stands the Malga Lunga, now a museum of the Resistance, in memory of what happened there in 1944. The village also keeps a more unusual trace: Sovere is home to the Collage de 'Pataphysique, the official offshoot of the French Collège de 'Pataphysique. And on the gate of palazzo Longhini, more than five metres high and painted a bright green that stands out against the yellow of the front, the iron hooks remain to which the horses were tied, probably forged by the family's own smithy.
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Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 24 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 24 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 24 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 · 24 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.