Patron saint festival In 118 days
Feast of Saint Rinaldo
📅 Every year, on 9 February
On 9 February Nocera Umbra celebrates Saint Rinaldo, the bishop who adopted an orphan boy and whom the people proclaimed a saint as soon as he died, in 1217.
The water of Nocera was so good that in the seventeenth century they carried it as far as Constantinople: the town has been known for its springs for centuries. The name, in Umbrian, sounded like Noukria, the new one.
Above the town stands the Campanaccio, all that is left of the fortress of the Lombard gastalds: in 1421 the massacre of the Trinci took place there, and the earthquake of 1997 left only one of its sides standing. It has been rebuilt, and the 5,953 residents got their whole historic centre back only in 2016. The church of San Francesco, with its frescoes by Matteo da Gualdo, houses the picture gallery; the grave goods of the nearly two hundred Lombard tombs dug here are in Rome.
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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.