Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Alice Bel Colle, a municipality of 774 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
Alice Bel Colle looks over its vineyards from the eastern side of the Rio Medrio valley, which drains into the Bormida. The village sits at two levels: the old centre on the ridge, houses gathered round the church and its brick bell tower, and, lower down, Borgo Stazione on the valley floor.
The fief was split in two: one half went to Alessandria, which had the rights from the marquises of Occimiano, the other to the marquises of Montferrat, who took all of it in 1278. In 1533 Giovanni Giorgio died, the last of the line, and the village passed to the Gonzaga of Mantua. Vines still rule: moscato, brachetto, barbera, dolcetto, and two growers' cooperatives.
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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.