Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi
📅 Every year, on 4 October
On 4 October Schivenoglia celebrates its patron Saint Francis of Assisi in the church dedicated to him, reopened in 2018 after restoration works.
The name is a small joke: schivare plus noia, to dodge boredom, because for centuries people came here on holiday to amuse themselves. The land, though, was marshy and unhealthy, beaten by plague and by the floods of the Po — that of 1232 and then the devastating one of 1705. Matilda of Canossa gave it to the monks of Polirone.
In 1575 the inhabitants, tired of depending in church matters on the parish priest of San Giovanni del Dosso, asked for and obtained a priest of their own. Two names came out of the village: Andrea da Schivenoglia, who in the fifteenth century wrote a chronicle of the years between 1445 and 1481, and the painter Francesco Maria Raineri, born in 1676, whom everyone simply called lo Schivenoglia.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Schivenoglia 1
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🍝 The flavours of Schivenoglia
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 Schivenoglia
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Schivenoglia, 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.