Bergamasco stands on the left bank of the Belbo, where the Monferrato hills run out. A stronghold of the marquises of Incisa from before the year one thousand, it passed in 1514 to the Marquisate of Monferrato, when William IX Palaiologos took Incisa. The commune kept their arms: azure with nine gold stars.
The Palazzo Marchionale, built by the Moscheni marquises, still shows its round brick tower above the remains of the wall; it now holds a cinema museum. In 1985 a Roman sarcophagus of the second century turned up on a farm estate, in use as a cattle trough: the inscription gives it to a freedman named Calventius.
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📅 Every year, on 25 July; the Nativity of Mary on 8 September
On 25 July Bergamasco, a municipality of 765 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint James (San Giacomo); on 8 September comes the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Outside Bergamasco, but an easy day trip away.
