Patron saint festival In 53 days
Feast of Saint Syrus
📅 Every year, on 9 December
On 9 December Castelletto Monferrato celebrates its patron Saint Syrus; the town is also known for the Sagra della Zucca, with its typical pumpkin lasagna.
The village was once Castelletto Scazzoso, from the Latin Castrum Scatiosorum, and took its present name in 1937. The arms tell both halves of it: a two-tiered tower for the little castle and, behind, the Alps recalling the Monferrato, the Mons Ferratus. The promontory it sits on is about two hundred metres high; on clear days the plain of Marengo is in view.
At the top stand the old castle, reached by a brick stairway squeezed between two walls, and the parish church of San Siro, built when Castelletto became a comune in the early eighteenth century. In 1859 Vittorio Emanuele II and Garibaldi met at villa Pona, in the second war of independence.
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Porta Mosa 📍 Cremona · 7.3 km The last gate left in Cremona, medieval in origin, with a sixteenth-century archway and the bastion of San Giorgio. Chiesa di San Sisto 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Renaissance church in Piacenza that kept Raphael's Sistine Madonna, with the tomb of Margaret of Austria. Palazzo Farnese 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Great Farnese palace of Piacenza designed by Vignola, home to the civic museums with the Etruscan liver and Botticelli. Chiesa delle Benedettine 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Deconsecrated Baroque church of 1681 built by the Farnese, with a double church for nuns and faithful and a great dome. Basilica di San Savino 📍 Piacenza · 21 km Romanesque basilica in Piacenza with a Baroque façade of 1721, a crypt with zodiac mosaics and Saint Sabinus's relics. Violin Museum 📍 Cremona · 24 km Housed in Cremona's Palazzo dell'Arte, this museum displays masterpieces by Stradivari and the city's greatest luthiers.