Patron saint festival In 300 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Montedinove, a municipality of 505 inhabitants in the province of Ascoli Piceno, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
In a comune of five hundred people three different dialects are spoken, each holding its own slice of the territory: to the north, along the Aso, they speak Fermano; south of the Tesino, Castignanese; and in between, in the village and the surrounding countryside, Montedinovese, which has features of its own. The hill the village sits on, halfway between the two valleys, explains why. In 578, when the Lombards reached these parts, the people of Ascoli came here to take shelter.
In 1039 one Longino gave the territory to the abbey of Farfa, and it was the monks who built the fortifications. They proved useful: in 1239 the village was besieged by King Enzo and after two years came out victorious, so much so that the main gate, which had been called the sea gate, has been the Gate of Victory ever since. There is also a sanctuary dedicated to Saint Thomas Becket, which in Italy is not a common thing. The banner was granted to the comune in 1951, but the one it actually uses is another.
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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.