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Feast of Saint Valerius
📅 Every year, on 22 January
On 22 January Occimiano celebrates its patron Saint Valerius, after whom the town's church is named, identified with Valerius of Saragossa.
Occimiano, Aussimian in Piedmontese, lies in the province of Alessandria. Its coat of arms, drawn up in the Risorgimento, invents nothing of its own: it borrows the two best-known quarters of the Savoy arms, the Moors of Sardinia and the crowned eagle with spread wings, the Savoy shield on its breast. The gonfalon repeats the pairing, red over white.
The parish church is dedicated to San Valerio. Its bell tower is in bare brick, with two tiers of arched openings, the clock above the bells and a pale spire rising over the village roofs.
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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.