Patron saint festival In 28 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Masera celebrates its patron Saint Martin; the town is home to the Oratorio di Sant'Abbondio.
Masera first appears in writing in June 970, when Bishop Aupaldo of Novara gave a priest from Vogogna a plot of land “in loco et feudo Maxerie”. From 1439 it belonged to the Borromeo, under whom Masera, Trontano, Beura and Cardezza won some self-government as the Four Lands; Masera was the capital, and the Borromeo agent's small palace still stands in the hamlet of Carale.
At the mouth of the Vigezzo valley the oratory of Sant'Abbondio stands on a rock, with a stone-slab roof and an eleventh-century Romanesque bell tower. The village museum, the Museo dello Spallone, is devoted to the small-time mountain smugglers.
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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.