Patron saint festival In 100 days
Saint Vincent, patron of the land of the Castello di Pombia
📅 Every year, on 22 January
Pombia celebrates Saint Vincent on 22 January, in the church dedicated to him.
Before it was Pombia the place was Flavia Plumbia, with origins in Roman times. On the bank of the Ticino stand the ruins of Castel Domino and the Romanesque church of San Vincenzo in castro.
At nearby San Giorgio a Lombard arimannia and a small fort served the counts for two purposes at once: watching the gold workings along the Ticino and collecting tolls for crossing the river. The counts of Pombia, descended from Arduin king of Italy, held the castle until the twelfth century; in 1028 the title passed to Guido I, and from that branch came the counts of Biandrate.
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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.