Altavilla Monferrato looks north over the Grana valley, where the provinces of Alessandria and Asti meet. In 1026 Conrad II granted the territory in fief to the abbey of Novalesa; in 1320 the village sided with Theodore I of Montferrat, who walled it and built a castle. A few ruins survive inside a later residential palazzo.
The parish church of San Giulio, consecrated in 1630, has a bare brick front with two statues in niches and holds a Last Supper by Guglielmo Caccia, il Moncalvo, a painter from these parts. By the war memorial stands a Statue of Liberty said to be the work of Paul Landowski, who designed Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer.
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📅 Every year, on 31 January
On 31 January Altavilla Monferrato celebrates its patron Saint Julius of Orta, to whom the town's church is dedicated; the Castello d'Altavilla stands in the municipality.
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Outside Altavilla Monferrato, but an easy day trip away.
