Patron saint festival In 308 days
Feast of San Bernardo
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Bosio, a municipality of 1,240 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron San Bernardo.
Bosio is the only municipality in Piedmont that borders Genoa, along the Apennine ridge dividing the upper Stura from the Leira: the closest Piedmont gets to the sea. The land belonged to Liguria and passed to Piedmont under the Rattazzi decree; the municipality was created only in 1948, detaching five hamlets from Parodi Ligure.
In the spring of 1944 the Benedicta monastery, towards Monte Tobbio, served as the partisans' headquarters: on 7 April German and fascist forces surrounded the area, shot ninety-seven people and blew up the farmstead. The town holds the war cross for military valour. The parish church of Santi Pietro e Marziano has a yellow front and a rose window.
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