Patron saint festival In 316 days
Saint Alexander, patron of Albizzate
📅 Every year, on 26 August
Albizzate celebrates Saint Alexander on 26 August, in the church dedicated to him.
The name of Albizzate in all likelihood comes from an Arvidius, or from an Arvetius, with the suffix -ate added; some also link it to the Albizzi family and their castle, but that explanation rests on less. On the map of the Duchy of Milan kept in the Vatican the village appears as Albigi. The most notable thing it has is the Visconti oratory, where fourteenth-century frescoes of the Giottesque school are preserved, with the stories of Saint John the Baptist and Saint Louis of Toulouse.
The town hall is housed inside a villa, the Cà Taverna, which bears the name of the family that owned it for some two centuries: it grew out of the gradual joining of separate buildings, which in the end came to enclose a quadrangular courtyard, and from that courtyard a double baroque staircase rises to the floor above. In the fields around, wine is being made again: since 2005, with the recognition of the Ronchi Varesini, Albizzate has once more been growing Nebbiolo, Merlot, Erbaluce and Chardonnay.
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Near Albizzate
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Albizzate, but an easy day trip away.
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.