Patron saint festival
Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary
📅 Every year, on 7 October
On 7 October Dormelletto celebrates its patron Our Lady of the Rosary; the municipal territory includes the Parco naturale dei Lagoni di Mercurago.
Dormelletto and its hamlet Dormello are a name in horse racing: the Dormello-Olgiata stud was here, and out of it came Nearco, Bellini, Donatello II and Ribot, whom they called the horse of the century. From the nineteen-thirties, thanks to the work begun by Federico Tesio, this land was the centre of world racing: eighty per cent of the galloping horses in the world come from here.
Under the village lies a Gallic burial ground: around 1987 some fifty tombs came to light, with pots, spearheads, farmers' sickles, bronze anklets and bracelets. In 2006, digging to rebuild the primary school, dozens more turned up.
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Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 24 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 24 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 24 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 · 24 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.