Patron saint festival In 202 days
Feast of Saint Godehard
📅 Every year, on 4 May
On 4 May Ripalta Guerina, a municipality of 535 inhabitants in the province of Cremona, celebrates its patron Saint Godehard, to whom the parish church is dedicated.
Ripalta Guerina is all flat but for one cut. The territory is small and even, a little above seventy metres over the sea, and the only relief is a negative one: to the east the Serio has dug its own valley more than twelve metres below the level of the fields, with a steep scarp edge. To the west the border with Moscazzano is marked by the roggia Comuna. A single provincial road crosses the comune, the old Cremasca that joins Bergamo to Codogno. In the dialect of Crema the village is called Riultelina.
At the entrance to the village stands the villa that the marquis Monticelli had built in the 18th century: several blocks, farm buildings, a sober façade with a balcony at the centre and a portico beside it. It is the villa where Arturo Toscanini came on holiday, and today part of it has become a restaurant. Inside it, and in the village around, Francesco Maselli shot Gli sbandati. The parish church of San Gottardo owes its neoclassical shape to a partial rebuilding of 1814, wanted by the parish priest Carlo Confortini; the inside was decorated by Angelo Ogliari, and among the canvases is the series of the Via Crucis.
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Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.