Patron saint festival In 28 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Montemezzo celebrates its patron Saint Martin; the municipal territory includes the Denti di Montemezzo.
In the statutes of Como of 1335 the village is called comune de Medio montis Surici and has a precise duty: to keep in order a stretch of the via Regina, the lake road. The territory then fell within the upper Three Pievi, which in 1497 were given in fief to Lucrezia Crivelli, in 1545 to the Medeghino and from 1580 to the Gallio.
The parish church of San Martino, of the fifteenth century, was enriched for centuries with money sent home by the people of Montemezzo who had emigrated to Ancona and to Sicily: inside there are canvases by Giovanni Mauro della Rovere and Cristoforo Caresana. At Montalto, in a panoramic spot over the upper lake, stands the oratory of San Lorenzo, raised at the beginning of the twentieth century probably as a vow.
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chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.