Patron saint festival In 47 days
Feast of Saint Andrew
📅 Every year, on 30 November
On 30 November Solonghello celebrates its patron Saint Andrew; the town preserves the Castello di Solonghello.
The place name is probably Germanic: it is thought to come from the personal name Swal, with the suffix -ing, which marks belonging, and the diminutive -elus, meaning the small territory of a leader called Swala. The first notice of a comune here goes back to 1016, when several families rebelled against the church of Vercelli and banded together as di Soalingellum.
The old stronghold was raised in the twelfth century by a vassal of the marquesses of Monferrato, and changed hands many times. In 1522 it took in nobles of Casale fleeing the plague; later Spanish and German troops sacked it repeatedly in the long wars around the citadel of Casale. Monferrato passed to the Savoys with the treaty of Utrecht.
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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.