Patron saint festival In 25 days
Saint Martin, autumn patron of San Martino di Venezze
📅 Every year, on 11 November
San Martino di Venezze celebrates Saint Martin on 11 November, in the church dedicated to him.
The village's history was written by the Adige, which closes it off to the north. Two ruinous floods, in 1844 and in 1882, and after the breach of 1882 an emigration to South America began that only stopped in the early twenties. Then in 1951, after the flood of the Po, another generation left, this time for the factories of the industrial triangle: from then on the village kept emptying.
The full name came later: having entered the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, the comune added to San Martino the specification «di Venezze». The business of the coat of arms is curious, because the royal decree of 1928 granted a battlemented castle with three silver towers, but the comune uses instead Saint Martin on horseback cutting his cloak to give it to the naked man. In the centre, on the right bank of the Adige, the eighteenth-century parish church has a visibly leaning bell tower.
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Patron saint festival In 303 days
Saint Roch, summer patron of San Martino di Venezze
📅 Every year, on 16 August
San Martino di Venezze celebrates Saint Roch on 16 August.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside San Martino di Venezze, but an easy day trip away.
Porta Mosa 📍 Cremona · 7.3 km The last gate left in Cremona, medieval in origin, with a sixteenth-century archway and the bastion of San Giorgio. Chiesa di San Sisto 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Renaissance church in Piacenza that kept Raphael's Sistine Madonna, with the tomb of Margaret of Austria. Palazzo Farnese 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Great Farnese palace of Piacenza designed by Vignola, home to the civic museums with the Etruscan liver and Botticelli. Chiesa delle Benedettine 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Deconsecrated Baroque church of 1681 built by the Farnese, with a double church for nuns and faithful and a great dome. Basilica di San Savino 📍 Piacenza · 21 km Romanesque basilica in Piacenza with a Baroque façade of 1721, a crypt with zodiac mosaics and Saint Sabinus's relics. Violin Museum 📍 Cremona · 24 km Housed in Cremona's Palazzo dell'Arte, this museum displays masterpieces by Stradivari and the city's greatest luthiers.