Patron saint festival In 322 days
Saint Giles, patron of the land of the Mandria Park
📅 Every year, on 1 September
San Gillio celebrates Saint Giles on 1 September, in the church dedicated to him.
The name is Saint Gilles turned Italian, that is Sant'Egidio, to whom the parish church is still dedicated. It is a small medieval church, built to the pattern of a Templar mansio, and it still stands on a rise other than the one the town occupies today.
The present town was born of an agreement: in 1324 Filippo di Savoia-Acaia and the inhabitants settled on building a Villanova, which by 1331 was already finished, well away from the old settlement. The fief later went to Domenico Ambrogio Vignati, a jurist from Lodi, and stayed with his descendants — by then living in Turin — until the family died out in 1821.
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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.