Patron saint festival In 263 days
The Most Holy Crucifix, patron of Arnesano
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of July
Arnesano celebrates the Most Holy Crucifix on the first Sunday of July.
The name says the shape of the place: it comes from arna, that is a hollow, and the village lies in the Valle della Cupa, one of the clearest depressions of the Lecce tableland. In the Riesci quarter a burial four thousand four hundred years old was found, with three vases and a small stone idol.
In 1912 Teresa and Giulia Bernardini opened the village's first nursery school, and in its chapel they put four large eighteenth-century canvases — Goliath, Moses saved from the waters, Judith, Hagar in the desert — which came from the picture gallery of the marquesses' palace. On the church of the Annunziata, meanwhile, there is a little turret of 1770 that served as the public clock.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Arnesano, 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.