Patron saint festival In 47 days
Feast of Saint Andrew
📅 Every year, on 30 November
On 30 November Capralba celebrates its patron Saint Andrew; the municipal territory is crossed by numerous spring-fed watercourses, including the Fontanile Lotte.
On the Treviglio-Cremona railway the trains used to pass through Capralba without stopping. The station was opened in 1914, and the source is explicit about why: at the request of the population. It has been there ever since, it serves the hamlet of Farinate too, and today a train an hour links it to Treviglio and Cremona, with some services running straight on to Milan. The rest of the village is made of water: the land is full of springs, so many that it has a park of them, and the resurgence watercourses have ended up in the coat of arms, granted in 2002, as a blue wavy band.
In that same coat of arms there are two more things, and they are the two hamlets. The tower recalls an old defensive building that stood at Farinate; the flax plant stands for the crop grown around Campisico, from where the best flax in the whole Crema district was thought to come. For Capralba, a place of medieval origin that has always belonged to the Crema country, was formed by accretion: in the Napoleonic period, between 1809 and 1816, Campagnola, Campisico and Farinate were joined to it, then became independent again with the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia; Campisico came back for good in 1819 and Farinate in 1868.
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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.