Patron saint festival In 290 days
Feast of Santo Stefano
📅 Every year, on 31 July
On 31 July Antignano, a municipality of 1,025 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron Santo Stefano.
The name changed shape several times: medieval documents write Anteljanus, Anterjanus, Antessianus and Antonianus before the present form settled, and the Latin family name behind it is unclear. The first certain record is from the year 870, when the village appears among the possessions of the emperor Louis II.
In 1419 Giovanni Turco, leading the Monferrato army, failed to take the citadel of Asti and besieged Antignano: beaten, he fled leaving his siege engines behind, and the villagers paraded them through the streets of Asti. Antignano looks down from its hill over the Tanaro, and here Francesca Armosino was born, the last wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi, who later came to see her land.
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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.