Patron saint festival In 256 days
Saints Peter and Paul, patrons of the Castle of Provaglio
📅 Every year, on 29 June
Provaglio d'Iseo celebrates Saints Peter and Paul on 29 June, in the church dedicated to them.
The name is the Latin pro-vallem, «before the valley»: the valley is the hollow below the village, towards the Sebino, filled by the peat basin. Provaglio d'Iseo sits in Franciacorta under Monte Cognolo, and the lake in its name does not reach it. Around 1200 the parish left the pieve of Iseo for the monastery of San Pietro in Lamosa; of the castle that guarded the Brescia road, pulled down by Pandolfo III Malatesta, little is left.
Peat cutting began in the late eighteenth century; by the end of the nineteenth, seven pits were open and two hundred men worked them. Coal and then electricity took its place in the silk mills of Iseo; digging revived in the Second World War and ended in the nineteen-sixties. The arms show five ears of wheat tied with a national-colours ribbon and a blue lion from the emblem of Brescia.
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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.