Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June San Giovanni del Dosso, a municipality of 1,298 inhabitants in the province of Mantua, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
In the sixteenth century one of the painters at the Este court signed himself with the name of this place: the father of Giovanni Francesco Luteri owned a farm at Dosso della Scaffa, today called San Giovanni del Dosso, and in Ferrara they called him Dosso. The surname we know him by, Dossi, was born in the eighteenth century from a mistake by local historians, who took the nickname for a family name.
The village has a stubborn streak: in 1878 the parishioners refused the priest sent by the bishop and elected one of their own by plebiscite, and the schism lasted two years. It became a municipality late, in 1924, breaking away from Quistello. The earthquake of 2012 brought down the pediment of the parish church.
The San Giovanni del Dosso guide
🎉 Festivals and feasts in San Giovanni del Dosso 1
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🍝 The flavours of San Giovanni del Dosso
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 San Giovanni del Dosso
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside San Giovanni del Dosso, but an easy day trip away.
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.