Patron saint festival In 300 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Camino, a municipality of 802 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
Camino was a fief of the bishops of Asti, then of the marquises of Montferrat. Marquis Theodore Palaeologus, refused a loan by his father-in-law and needing to reach his father Andronicus in Constantinople, took ten thousand silver florins from the Scarampi bankers of Asti against Camino and Pontestura: Pontestura was redeemed, Camino was not. The town arms carry the red and white of Montferrat beside the gold pales of the Scarampi.
The castle goes back to the eleventh century, and a stone inside records the year 1010. Camino was also home to Giovanni Battista Boetti, the friar who by one tradition was the prophet Mansur, leader of an Islamic army against Catherine of Russia.
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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.