Patron saint festival In 228 days
The Visitation of the Virgin, patron of the land of the Castle of San Pelagio
📅 Every year, on 1 June
Due Carrare celebrates the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 1 June.
The place that gave the Carraresi their surname, lords of Padua in the fourteenth century, has existed as a municipality only since 1995: that year a referendum joined Carrara San Giorgio and Carrara Santo Stefano, and the two settlements became districts of a single town. Of the old Da Carrara castle only ruins remain; of the abbey of Santo Stefano, recorded from the eleventh century, what remains is the district's nickname, the Bassìa.
On 9 August 1918 the aircraft of the flight over Vienna took off from the San Pelagio airfield, when Gabriele D'Annunzio went to drop leaflets on the enemy capital instead of bombs. The villa beside it now houses the Museum of Air and Space. At Pontemanco two water mills still turn on the Biancolino canal, and Villa Priuli was begun in 1597 to a design by Vincenzo Scamozzi.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Due Carrare, but an easy day trip away.
Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 5.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times. Riserva naturale stagno di Holay 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A hectare and a half of wetland at 750 metres, with relict species rare in the Aosta Valley. castello di Pont-Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km The old castle, with its rare hexagonal keep, half an hour up through the vineyards above the town.