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Feast of the Assumption of Mary
📅 Every year, on 15 August
On 15 August Montescudaio, a municipality of 1,958 inhabitants in the province of Pisa, celebrates the Assumption of Mary (Assunzione di Maria).
The name is Lombard, but no one knows what it speaks of: perhaps of a scutarius, a shield-maker, perhaps of the sculdascio, the officer who collected the taxes and kept the militia. Not far off is Guardistallo, which in Lombard means the guard's lodging: two names close together that tell how this district was held. The village appears in 1091.
The counts of Montescudaio rebelled more than once against Pisa, but when in the fifteenth century the countryside passed to Florence they were quick to take the winning side. It was the inhabitants who got rid of them: with Florence's leave they made themselves a commune, wrote their own statutes and drove the counts out of the castle. The commune ended on 10 May 1648, when the whole area became a fief of the Ridolfi marquises. In 1846 an earthquake brought down the old houses of the castle.
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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.