Patron saint festival In 283 days
Feast of Saint James
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Piubega, a municipality of 1,768 inhabitants in the province of Mantua, celebrates its patron Saint James (San Giacomo).
The name of Piubega has more than one explanation. One traces it to a Roman Publicius, who is said to have founded the castle here; the other, the finer one, to publica, that is public: a village open to all. Of the castle the tower remains, which is also the bell tower, but the medieval stronghold was not of stone: it was made of mud and raised earth, with four watchtowers at the corners, and of that way of defending oneself with whatever the ground offered the Mantuan plain is full.
For almost half a century the village also had its own station: between 1886 and 1933 the Mantua-Asola tramway passed through here, and when the tramway closed the buses remained, which still today run to the provincial capital. The centre gathers around piazza Matteotti, with the parish church of San Giacomo Maggiore, the palazzo Cavallara-Pavesi and the monument to the infantrymen. In the village a weather station is at work, run together with the Centro Meteorologico Lombardo: the upper plain, here, measures itself.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Piubega 1
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🍝 The flavours of Piubega
Sbrisolona crumbly almond and cornmeal cake, broken by hand
White and yellow flour, almonds, butter and sugar, broken by hand: sbrisolona is Mantova's cake, already served at the Gonzaga court.
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Near Piubega
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Piubega, but an easy day trip away.
Chiesa di San Luca 📍 Pavia · 21 km Church in Pavia of 1586-1609 on the Via Francigena, its façade turned north towards the pilgrims. Chiesa dei Santi Primo e Feliciano 📍 Pavia · 21 km Twelfth-century Romanesque church in Pavia, with its original façade and Agostino da Vaprio's 1498 triptych. Chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Pavia · 22 km Franciscan church in Pavia with a two-tone Gothic façade and double portal, a Visconti burial site. Torre civica di Pavia 📍 Pavia · 22 km Eleventh-century tower of Pavia, which collapsed on 17 March 1989: ruins and a 2014 memorial remain. Pinacoteca Malaspina 📍 Pavia · 22 km Civic art gallery of Pavia in the Visconti Castle: Bellini, Correggio, Antonello and the Morone bequest. Chiesa di San Lanfranco 📍 Pavia · 24 km Romanesque Vallombrosan basilica in Pavia, with Amadeo's tomb of San Lanfranco and a fresco of Becket.