Patron saint festival In 277 days
Saint Elijah, patron of Peschici
📅 Every year, on 20 July
Peschici celebrates Saint Elijah on 20 July.
Peschici is said to have been founded by Slav soldiers: in 970, having driven the Saracens out on the orders of Otto I, a band of Schiavoni stopped here and raised the castrum of Pesclizio on the ruins of a casale the Saracens had destroyed. A deed of 1053 still recalls them; then the community dissolved into the village. The name too would be Slavic, from the root pès, sand.
In September 1239 twenty-five Venetian galleys, sent by the pope against the excommunicated Frederick II, took and levelled Peschici and Vieste; Frederick had the fortifications rebuilt. Between 1469 and 1586 the town appears on twenty-three charts and portolans, nearly all by Venetian geographers, and between 1550 and 1570 ships were built here for Ragusa: one, of two hundred and fifty carra, cost five hundred ducats.
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Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 24 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 24 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 24 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 · 24 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.