Patron saint festival In 258 days
Feast of Saint Peter
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Olivola, a municipality of 123 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint Peter.
Olivola, Aulìvola in Piedmontese, stands on a hill in the Lower Monferrato, above the valley of the Rotaldo stream. It belonged to the marquises of Monferrato and followed their fortunes, later passing in fief to the Celoria, the Ferraris and others, and finally becoming a county of the Candiani and Curioni Guazzi, lords also of Ottiglio. In 1928 the comune was abolished and merged with neighbouring Frassinello as Frassinello Olivola, regaining its independence only after the Second World War.
The arms are azure, with a silver horse rearing on its hind legs, accompanied in the dexter chief canton by a black eagle with wings displayed. The old centre includes the parish church of San Pietro and its Romanesque bell tower.
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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.