Patron saint festival In 203 days
Saint Pius V, patron of the land of the great complex of Santa Croce
📅 Every year, on 5 May
Bosco Marengo celebrates Saint Pius V on 5 May.
Marengo is thought to come from the Marici, a Ligurian people who were here before the Romans: the area was Lucus Maricorum, the wood of the Marici, and their name outlasted them by centuries.
In 1447 the men of Bosco fought in the battle between the French and the Milanese, and their loyalty ended up on a plaque set into the walls of the Castello Sforzesco. The village later gave the world Antonio Michele Ghislieri: as Pope Pius V, in 1566 he wanted a Dominican convent on his home ground, meant to be the centre of a new city that would swallow Bosco and Frugarolo, and his own tomb.
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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.