Patron saint festival In 307 days
Feast of San Bernardo
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Borgoratto Alessandrino, a municipality of 617 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron San Bernardo.
Borgoratto Alessandrino already existed before the thirteenth century, on the bank of the Bormida, and tradition traces its name to families called Ratti, or De' Ratti. The document that counts is dated 28 May 1438: Filippo Maria Visconti, lord of these lands, granted the fiefs of Borgoratto and Gamalero to Simonino Ghilini, his favourite secretary, with their castles, holdings, mills and tolls. The grant cut both fiefs loose from the jurisdiction of Alessandria, where Simonino lived.
The arms still hold that story: the crowned lion comes from the Ghilini blazon, the blue diagonal band is the Bormida.
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Porta Mosa 📍 Cremona · 7.3 km The last gate left in Cremona, medieval in origin, with a sixteenth-century archway and the bastion of San Giorgio. Chiesa di San Sisto 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Renaissance church in Piacenza that kept Raphael's Sistine Madonna, with the tomb of Margaret of Austria. Palazzo Farnese 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Great Farnese palace of Piacenza designed by Vignola, home to the civic museums with the Etruscan liver and Botticelli. Chiesa delle Benedettine 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Deconsecrated Baroque church of 1681 built by the Farnese, with a double church for nuns and faithful and a great dome. Basilica di San Savino 📍 Piacenza · 21 km Romanesque basilica in Piacenza with a Baroque façade of 1721, a crypt with zodiac mosaics and Saint Sabinus's relics. Violin Museum 📍 Cremona · 24 km Housed in Cremona's Palazzo dell'Arte, this museum displays masterpieces by Stradivari and the city's greatest luthiers.