Patron saint festival In 93 days
Feast of Saint Maurus
📅 Every year, on 15 January
On 15 January Quingentole celebrates its patron Saint Maurus; the town preserves the Palazzo dei vescovi di Mantova and looks out over the Po floodplain.
The name is probably a number. Quingentole would come from quingenti, five hundred, perhaps the original measure of the place, and in that case it belongs to a family of Po valley place names that count: Trecenta, Nonantola, Quarantoli. The other two explanations are more modest: five miles from the road that joined Ostiglia to Quarantoli, or quinque gentes, five families.
In 977 the emperor Otto the Third gave the village to the bishop of Mantua, and the bishops' palace is still there, facing the square: it is called Gran Casa del Sole and it is the town hall. Opposite, on the forecourt of the parish church of San Lorenzo, stand two red marble lions of the late fourteenth century. The Po runs just behind the embankment, a little below the mouth of the Secchia.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Quingentole 1
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🍝 The flavours of Quingentole
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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Places to see within 25 km
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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.