The name first appears in 989, and in the same year so does the Benedictine convent, which stayed in the village until 1571: nothing of it is left, and it probably stood near the castle. Where the place name comes from is unknown; the -igi ending points to Lombard or late Roman roots.
In the twelfth century the settlement lay where the sanctuary of the Cristo now stands, in a borgo called Villa Quadraciana; but that quarter never grew, and the village formed instead around the castle. Between 1928 and 1947 Scarnafigi did not exist on its own: it was joined to Ruffia in the commune of Scarnafigi-Ruffia.
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📅 Every year, on the last Sunday of September, honouring the Holy Bodies of the martyrs Castus, Clara, Honoratus and Verecundus
Scarnafigi celebrates the Corpi Santi, the martyrs Castus, Clara, Honoratus and Verecundus, on the last Sunday of September.
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