Patron saint festival In 122 days
Feast of Saint Valentine
📅 Every year, on 14 February
On 14 February Salara celebrates its patron Saint Valentine, to whom the town's church is dedicated; in May the strawberry festival is held.
The village and the monastery of Santa Croce were at law with each other for at least two hundred years. The monastery had been built by the Augustinians at the end of the eleventh century, then passed to the Benedictines under the Este, and the monks stayed until the early eighteenth century, quarrelling all the while with the local people. In the shadow of that monastery, all the same, Salara grew.
The name comes from salt, which passed this way along a river, the Pestrina, still there today. Although the comune is in the Veneto, in the province of Rovigo, the dialect spoken here is Emilian, close to that of Ferrara: this is the Transpadana ferrarese, the part of Ferrara left on the far side of the Po. In May there is the strawberry festival, in September the donkey festival.
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Chiesa di San Luca 📍 Pavia · 21 km Church in Pavia of 1586-1609 on the Via Francigena, its façade turned north towards the pilgrims. Chiesa dei Santi Primo e Feliciano 📍 Pavia · 21 km Twelfth-century Romanesque church in Pavia, with its original façade and Agostino da Vaprio's 1498 triptych. Chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Pavia · 22 km Franciscan church in Pavia with a two-tone Gothic façade and double portal, a Visconti burial site. Torre civica di Pavia 📍 Pavia · 22 km Eleventh-century tower of Pavia, which collapsed on 17 March 1989: ruins and a 2014 memorial remain. Pinacoteca Malaspina 📍 Pavia · 22 km Civic art gallery of Pavia in the Visconti Castle: Bellini, Correggio, Antonello and the Morone bequest. Chiesa di San Lanfranco 📍 Pavia · 24 km Romanesque Vallombrosan basilica in Pavia, with Amadeo's tomb of San Lanfranco and a fresco of Becket.