Patron saint festival In 103 days
The Conversion of Saint Paul, patron of Villa Barbaro
📅 Every year, on 25 January
Maser celebrates the Conversion of Saint Paul on 25 January.
Maser has 4,962 inhabitants between the plain and the hills of Asolo, and its name does not promise well: it comes from the Latin maceries, rubble, ruins, and marked a piece of land that had slipped. On that land, between 1554 and 1560, Andrea Palladio built for the brothers Daniele and Marcantonio Barbaro the villa that carries their name: one of his masterpieces, and the reason the town is known around the world.
Before the Barbaro these lands belonged to the Ezzelini, and their properties were counted one by one after the family's final defeat in 1260. The parish church of San Paolo keeps a Martyrdom of Saint Catherine from the school of Paolo Veronese and a Virgin and Child by Leandro da Ponte. The war memorial, unveiled in 1923 and carved by Angelo Rossetto, a sculptor from Maser, is made of two spires of rock — the Alps, the frontier — and of a bronze woman, the Fatherland, looking down at a fallen son sculpted at her feet.
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Places to see within 25 km
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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.