Patron saint festival In 238 days
Saint Anthony of Padua and the Pamparrina Minervinese
📅 Every year, from 11 to 13 June
Minervino di Lecce celebrates Saint Anthony of Padua from 11 to 13 June.
Until 1650 Minervino was not one village but sixteen: sixteen borghi of fifty to a hundred people each, which were really farmsteads. The largest was called Borgo Minervino and ran from piazza San Pietro to the mother church, with a hundred and fifty inhabitants; another was called Borgo Giudecca.
In the fields towards Uggiano stands the dolmen Li Scusi, the first found and catalogued in Puglia: Maggiulli recognised it in 1879. The covering slab, two and a half metres by three metres eighty, rests on eight uprights, and one of the eight is not a stone carried there but the rock that was already cropping out.
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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.