Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Albera Ligure, a municipality of 329 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
Albera Ligure lies on the right bank of the Borbera, the stream that names the valley, below Monte Ebro, the highest summit in the province of Alessandria. The Albirola, which divides the main settlement from the hamlet of San Martino, most likely took its name from the village. Until 1863 the municipality was called simply Albera, and its arms carry the gold letters A and L on red, above a tower with Guelph merlons.
At Vendersi, around the ninth century and on the remains of a Roman settlement, a Benedictine abbey took in peasants fleeing the barbarian invasions; once it declined, its property became a papal fief and an ecclesiastical immunity of the diocese of Tortona, under a provost answering directly to the pope. In the second half of the seventeenth century Carlo Settala, bishop of Tortona, had coins struck in Albera's name: the Settala arms on one side, a bishop with mitre and crozier on the other. In 1929 the village was merged into Rocchetta Ligure, becoming independent again in 1947.
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Museo storico militare Brigata Catanzaro 📍 Catanzaro · 7.8 km Catanzaro museum of the Catanzaro Brigade: arms, uniforms and relics from Napoleon to the Second World War. Chiesa di Sant'Omobono 📍 Catanzaro · 9.0 km Catanzaro church with Norman-Byzantine features, described as the oldest place of worship in the city. Basilica dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Catanzaro · 9.3 km Catanzaro basilica built in 1254, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, patron of the city. Chiesa del Santissimo Rosario 📍 Catanzaro · 9.5 km Fifteenth-century church in Catanzaro, consecrated in 1499, with a Baroque mother-of-pearl altar. Villa Margherita 📍 Catanzaro · 9.7 km Catanzaro's oldest public garden, of 1881, with an archaeological museum, a library and a view over the gulf. Castello normanno-svevo di Nicastro 📍 Lamezia Terme · 16 km Medieval castle on the hill of San Teodoro in Nicastro, with cylindrical towers and a pentagonal keep.