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Feast of Saint Peter in Chains
📅 Every year, on 4 November
On 4 November Andrate celebrates its patron Saint Peter in Chains; the municipal territory includes the Serra di Ivrea and preserves the Castello Rubino.
Andrate sits on top of the Serra d'Ivrea, above the morainic amphitheatre that runs to the Monferrato. Its name is thought to be Celtic: and, “end”, plus art, “land” — borderland. The ridge and the Viona torrent did mark the edge of Salassi country.
The earliest documents, of the early thirteenth century, find it under the bishops of Ivrea, whose mitre is still on the coat of arms. In 1365 a diploma of Charles IV handed it to the Savoy; in 1410 bishop Bonifacio della Torre gave it its own statute. Santa Maria was rebuilt in the eighteenth century; its Romanesque bell tower is late eleventh century, with openings from arrow slits to triple windows.
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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.