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.
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.