Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Michael
📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Premia celebrates Saint Michael in the parish church dedicated to him; the village also hosts the Don Giovanni Bonomo Mineralogical Museum.
Premia lies in the Valle Antigorio, on the road to the Val Formazza. Its name may come from the Latin proedium, a farmstead; tradition holds that the old village stood between Pioda and Rozzaro, until a landslide buried it. That spot is still called Prem, where Augustan-age graves and a pre-Roman hand mill came to light.
The parish church of San Michele stands above the village, at the top of a stairway. It is early seventeenth century, but grew on the plan of a chapel that Guido II De Rodis raised in 1250. The De Rodis, vassals of the Empire, gathered the tithe for the bishop-counts of Novara from 1210; the chancel frescoes portray them.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Premia 1
No events match these filters.
Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
Near Premia
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Premia, but an easy day trip away.
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.