Patron saint festival In 326 days
Saint Gratus, patron of the land of the Roc del Merlo
📅 Every year, on 7 September
Cafasse celebrates Saint Gratus on 7 September.
The name would come from Cafaxie, "scattered houses, houses in bunches", and it tells how the place began: small rural clusters and farmsteads on ground the waters of the Stura had left free. The oldest document to name it is a diploma of Conrad the Salic dated around 1000, where the form is Leocaffis: that Cafaxie derives from it is not proven.
The settlement was destroyed several times, by Hungarian raiders, by plague, by floods, and once the inhabitants crossed to the far bank of the Stura di Lanzo and founded a new village, which they called Villanova. From 1660 they asked to break away from Balangero and Mathi, which resisted: it took royal letters patent in 1767 to make them a community of their own.
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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.