Carezzano sits on the hills right of the Scrivia, and for centuries it was not one village but two, same name, separate identities. The name joins two archaic Ligurian words, car, "height", and san, "place": the upper one is thought older, though the lower grew larger. They merged in 1928.
Carezzano Inferiore was capital of the "Vescovato" of Tortona from the late fourteenth century to the late sixteenth: the bishop kept his curia, court, vicar and prisons there. Executions took place on the hill of Castiglione, where in the summer of 1520 three women from the Val Magra were burned as witches. Its arms show two facing bell towers under a crossed sabre and crosier.
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📅 Every year, on 2 August
On 2 August Carezzano, a municipality of 444 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint Eusebius of Vercelli (sant'Eusebio di Vercelli).
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Outside Carezzano, but an easy day trip away.
