Patron saint festival In 314 days
Feast of San Bartolomeo
📅 Every year, on 24 August
On 24 August Caprezzo, a municipality of 168 inhabitants in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, celebrates its patron San Bartolomeo.
Caprezzo lies in the Valle Intrasca, in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, and its whole territory falls inside the Val Grande National Park. It enters the records in 1125/1128, in a deed of the chapter archive of Intra, not for a privilege or a war but because one Pietro Spallador di Capricio owed eight denari and an amiscere, a due paid in kind. The name later ran through Capricium, Cavretium and Capretium, and the village stayed a Borromeo fief until the end of the eighteenth century.
The land gave wine, hemp, chestnuts and firewood, but not enough to live on: two thirds of the men were away most of the year, masons and cement workers in Lombardy, then Switzerland and France. The village streams drove the dairy mill that made butter. From San Bartolomeo a via crucis climbs to the Madonna del Sasso, a chapel raised on a vow after the plague of 1630. Baldassare Verazzi was born here, painter of the most representative canvas of the Five Days of Milan.
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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.