Patron saint festival In 277 days
Feast of Saint Margaret
📅 Every year, on 20 July
On 20 July Cassinelle, a municipality of 937 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patroness Saint Margaret (Santa Margherita).
Cassinelle sits on a hill in the Ovada country, between the Amione and Caramagna valleys. In 1284 Tommaso Malaspina had to rule whether the grazing at Bandita belonged to Morbello or to Cassinelle, and gave it to Cassinelle; Bandita is still its hamlet, filling each summer with holidaymakers from Genoa.
The church of San Defendente, also the parish church of Santa Margherita, began as a shrine to the Madonna of Loreto; the right aisle holds what are believed to be the saint's relics, brought from Rome in 1742. A tower on the arms recalls a castle pulled down in the nineteenth century, under the shields of the Spinola and Gentile, lords here.
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chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.