Patron saint festival In 270 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on the second Sunday of July
On the second Sunday of July Moscazzano, a municipality of 822 inhabitants in the province of Cremona, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
In late antiquity the great marshy lake called Gerundo still stood here. When the Lombards came down into Italy in 568, people from the surrounding country gathered on the broad stretch of dry ground in the middle of the water, the Insula Fulcheria, which took its name from Fulkar, a Byzantine commander who had camped there. Matilde di Canossa kept control of most of the island until 1098, when she made it over for good to Cremona; the village then followed the fortunes of nearby Crema and passed under Venice in 1449. In May 1527 the Landsknechts, on their way home from the sack of Rome, invaded and plundered Moscazzano and the other villages on the border between the Venetian state and the Duchy of Milan.
In 1678 an epidemic killed a great many of the village's children. Tradition held that they had been buried where the Cappella dei Murtì stands, and in the nineteen-twenties digging around the little chapel brought up a quantity of small human remains, which are now kept in the town cemetery. The arms granted in 1962 remember something older still: a Roman watchtower by the Adda, on the boundary of Crema's territory, replaced in the Middle Ages by a small fort and today by Villa Albergoni — whose rooms and park were the main set of Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name. And at the referendum of 1946 the village chose the king by a hair: two hundred and seventy votes for the monarchy against two hundred and fifty-five for the republic.
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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.