Patron saint festival In 313 days
Feast of San Bartolomeo
📅 Every year, on 24 August
On 24 August Ottone, a municipality of 570 inhabitants in the province of Piacenza, celebrates its patron San Bartolomeo.
Ottone is the westernmost municipality of Emilia-Romagna, and from here Genoa is closer than Piacenza: about sixty kilometres against about seventy. It is also the only municipality in the region that borders both Piedmont and Liguria. In 2010 the matter reached the council chamber, where asking for a referendum on moving to the province of Genoa was discussed; the idea was then let drop.
Ottone has in fact changed region three times without moving an inch: at the end of the eighteenth century it was the seat of a department of the Ligurian Republic, in 1848 it passed with the province of Bobbio from Liguria to Piedmont, in 1859 it ended up in the province of Pavia, that is in Lombardy, and only in 1923 did it reach Piacenza and Emilia-Romagna. At Bogli, one of its hamlets, the great-grandfather of Arturo Toscanini was born in 1769.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Voghera · 7.0 km The fourteenth-century Visconti castle in Voghera, long a prison, with frescoes of the Muses attributed to Bramantino. Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Voghera · 7.4 km The Lombard Gothic church of the Dominicans in Voghera, with fifteen rosary chapels, now Franciscan. Chiesa di San Luca 📍 Pavia · 20 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. Torre civica di Pavia 📍 Pavia · 21 km Eleventh-century tower of Pavia, which collapsed on 17 March 1989: ruins and a 2014 memorial remain. Chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Pavia · 21 km Franciscan church in Pavia with a two-tone Gothic façade and double portal, a Visconti burial site.