Patron saint festival In 279 days
Saint Mary Magdalene, patron of the land of the Castello di Foglizzo
📅 Every year, on 22 July
Foglizzo celebrates Saint Mary Magdalene on 22 July, in the church dedicated to her.
The village was a compulsory stop on the via Cursi, the fastest paved road towards Gaul, and it first appears in 882, in a diploma of Charles the Fat, among the holdings of the bishop of Vercelli. Its coat of arms shows an uprooted beech between two lions.
For generations Foglizzo was the village of brooms. Its red broomcorn grew nowhere else, tough and supple, sown along the edges of the fields as a by-crop; it was cut at the end of summer and turned into brooms in the stables over winter, each one stitched by hand. The trade is gone: only the older people remember it.
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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.