Patron saint festival In 248 days
Feast of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
📅 Every year, on 21 June
On 21 June Brusasco, a municipality of 1,726 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (san Luigi Gonzaga).
The name is disputed: some derive it from brusa, a bush, others from brusà, burnt; the phoenix on the arms argues for the second. The village lies on the Po where the Dora Baltea comes in, and between floods and raids on the fortress of Verrua Savoia the plain was unsafe, so people moved up to the Luogo, from Latin lucus, sacred wood. In 891 the first core of the castle went up there, where the church of San Bernardo still stands.
In 1927 Brusasco, Cavagnolo, Marcorengo and Brozolo became one comune and the arms took four stars. Brozolo broke away in 1948, Cavagnolo nine years later, Marcorengo stayed a hamlet: two stars remain.
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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.