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Feast of Sant'Eusebio di Vercelli
📅 Every year, on 1 August
On 1 August Castelletto Merli, a municipality of 484 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Sant'Eusebio di Vercelli.
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Castelletto Merli is not one village but a dozen hamlets scattered over the hills that climb towards the Sacro Monte di Crea, a feudal-age layout. The name first appears in a document of Frederick Barbarossa confirming the holding to the marquises of Monferrato.
The Merli, enfeoffed here in the eleventh century, gave the comune its arms: three black blackbirds set on three golden axes. Of their castle, on the highest ground in the comune, little remains inside later houses; the walls also held the church of San Nicolao, recorded in 1298. The hamlet churches are still there, like the brick one at Godio, with a sundial painted on its tower.
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