Patron saint festival In 158 days
Saint Benedict, patron of Pavone del Mella
📅 Every year, on 21 March
Pavone del Mella celebrates Saint Benedict on 21 March, in the church dedicated to him.
The water that irrigates the fields of Pavone did not arrive here by chance: the Santa Giovanna channel was dug in 1509 to drain the marshes of the Ghedi country, and the water taken from there has since served to wet the lands of Leno, Pavone del Mella and Pralboino. The rest is done by the river that gives the village its second name, the Mella, which marks the boundary with Cigole, and by the ditches that rise from the springs scattered through the fields.
They are big fields, sown mostly with maize, with farms of pigs, poultry and dairy cattle: that is how the Brescian plain works. Between 1914 and 1933 the village had a station on the Brescia-Ostiano tramway, and it was no ordinary stop: from there the branch line to Gambara split off. Two thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight inhabitants in the province of Brescia, on the left bank of the Mella.
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Places to see within 25 km
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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.