Patron saint festival In 255 days
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Quattordio, a municipality of 1,668 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patrons Saints Peter and Paul.
The name comes from a milestone: fourteen Roman miles from Hasta, ancient Asti, Quattuordecimum in Latin. The stone is thought to have stood in front of the parish church, and the town's arms still show it with the figure XIV. Quattordio appears in an official document in 1159, among the forty-six villages that Barbarossa, having subdued Asti, undertook to hold under his authority.
Palazzo Olivazzi closes a huge farm court of bare brick, known as Cascina Palazzo. The stable of seven vaults, with the hayloft above, went up in 1844 with walls over a metre thick: to fire those bricks, the story goes, a kiln was built inside the courtyard, with local clay.
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Chiesa di San Pietro 📍 Cento · 8.9 km One of Cento's oldest churches, thirteenth-century, with a five-bay portico: three Guercino altarpieces once hung here. Basilica di San Biagio 📍 Cento · 9.1 km Cento's Baroque cathedral church, reopened in 2018 after the earthquake: an elliptical dome and two Guercino paintings. Rocca di Cento 📍 Cento · 9.4 km The fortress the Bolognese built in Cento from 1378: a keep, three corner towers and the cells used until 1969. Centro di documentazione del mondo agricolo ferrarese 📍 Ferrara · 16 km Museum of Ferrara's farming world at San Bartolomeo in Bosco, opened 1981, over ten thousand objects. Este Castle 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Built in 1385 around four imposing towers, this moated medieval fortress is the Renaissance centerpiece of Ferrara. cattedrale di San Giorgio 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Romanesque below, Gothic above: Nicholaus's façade, the merchants' loggias and the Months in the museum.