Patron saint festival In 53 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas of Myra
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Macchia Valfortore celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas of Myra, to whom the town's main church is dedicated.
In 1701 the Prince of Macchia, Gaetano Giacomo Gambacorta, launched from Naples the conspiracy that bears the name of this village of 621 people: an attempt to overthrow the Spanish viceroy, crushed within days. He fled to Vienna and died there in 1703; the family's baronial palace now houses the town hall and a museum.
Below the village the Fortore was dammed and spread out into Lake Occhito, one of the largest artificial basins in Europe, which marks the border with Puglia and is a protected site. The coat of arms shows a tower, a cow and the three old town gates: walls and farming, which is what the place has always been.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Macchia Valfortore, 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.