Patron saint festival In 281 days
Feast of Saint James
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Brignano-Frascata, a municipality of 451 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint James (San Giacomo).
Brignano Frascata lies in the Val Curone, on the bank of the torrent that names the valley, and its farmland is almost all orchard. The comune is recent: it was formed in 1928 by merging Brignano del Curone with Frascata, and until 1947 it also held Momperone, now a comune again.
The hamlet of Serra del Monte is cut in two by the border between Piedmont and Lombardy: one settlement, two adjoining hamlets of the same name, the other in Cecima, province of Pavia. Neolithic finds have come to light there. Above the houses stands the castle, seventeenth-century in origin, rebuilt in medieval dress; in 1936 Alfonso Bruzzo of Genoa added the wing called the castelnuovo.
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abbazia di Santa Maria al Porale 📍 Ronco Scrivia · 9.9 km Founded by Cistercians in 1208 for pilgrims on the Via Postumia, today a chapel with a fresco of 1446. Castello di Francavilla Bisio 📍 Francavilla Bisio · 10 km The medieval castle of Francavilla Bisio: towers, moat and six centuries of Spinola, Grillo and Guasco. Castello di Lercaro 📍 Ovada · 11 km A Lercaro fortified villa of 1570, given to the town in 1872 as a hospice, now a ruin chiesa di Nostra Signora Assunta 📍 Ovada · 12 km Sober baroque inspired by Genoa, with twin bell towers and Pietro Ivaldi's vault. chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Ovada · 12 km Founded by Dominicans in 1481, with a high altar brought from Genoa in 1690 chiesa dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Ovada · 12 km A plague vow of 1631, first stone in 1640, and an almost total rebuild after the 1935 fire