Patron saint festival In 112 days
Feast of Saint Blaise
📅 Every year, on 3 February
On 3 February Pieranica celebrates its patron Saint Blaise, to whom the town's church is dedicated; the territory holds three fontanili and Villa Marazzi.
The archives say little about Pieranica, but the little they say is all inside the coat of arms, which is a rebus. In the oldest documents the village is called Pilaranica, and from that heraldry drew its design: pila, which in Latin means ball, and a frog set on the green field to make up the second half of the name. It is a canting coat of arms, one of those in which the name is not written but drawn, following the medieval habit of letting a place be recognised even by those who could not read. The frog also says what you see around: a plain of water and good soil.
In the chief of the shield, instead, there is a lion walking, and that is no play on words: it comes from the arms of the Benzoni, lords of Crema, who held large properties at Pieranica. The coat of arms was resolved by the podestà on 15 April 1932 and granted by royal decree on 23 July 1937, but the banner that goes with it arrived only by a decree of 18 February 2011: nearly eighty years to complete the insignia of a village that a single provincial road, the Crema to Vailate, crosses from one side to the other.
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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.