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.
Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 2.9 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 4.1 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Chiesa di Santa Maria al Carrobiolo 📍 Monza · 4.8 km Church of Santa Maria al Carrobiolo in Monza, with works by Peterzano and Moncalvo, vault frescoed 1707-1709. Chiesa di San Pietro Martire 📍 Monza · 4.8 km San Pietro Martire in Monza, 14th-century church for the Dominican killed in 1252, with a 15th-century cloister. Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 5.1 km Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Duomo di Monza 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Monza Cathedral, founded by Queen Theodelinda around 595, home of the Iron Crown.