Patron saint festival In 305 days
Saint Mary Virgin Assumed into Heaven, patron of the land of the Sasso Bianco
📅 Every year, on 15 August
Grignasco celebrates the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on 15 August, in the church dedicated to her.
Grignasco appears for the first time on 7 May 999, in a diploma of the emperor Otto III, among the lands restored to the bishop of Vercelli. In 1132 a bull of Innocent II gives it as the seat of a pieve, plebem Grinassi, and a document of 1151 carries the name of one of the first clerics serving there: Marinus diaconus de Grignasco.
Below the hill of the castle of San Genesio, of which a few ruins remain, stood the cellars of Grignasco: a sort of small ricetto, easier to defend, around which the town later built itself. Its old shape can still be read walking via Castello and via Torrione.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Grignasco, but an easy day trip away.
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.