Patron saint festival In 310 days
Feast of San Bernardo
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Formazza, a municipality of 442 inhabitants in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, celebrates its patron San Bernardo.
Formazza — Pomatt in German, Pumätt in Walser — is the northernmost comune in Piedmont: Valais lies to the west, Ticino to the north and east. There is no single centre, only small clusters along the valley, and until the nineteen-twenties the only way up was by mule.
From the thirteenth century it was a leading Walser colony, mother colony to Bosco Gurin: the first Walser village south of the Alps, and still a German-speaking island. In the fifteenth century the Pomatter shook off their feudal lords, and from 1486 the Thalbuch, the book of the valley, governed pastures and woods and gave the community its own court. Log houses stand below the Toce falls.
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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.