Patron saint festival In 221 days
Saint Desiderius, patron of the town of the Castello dei Torriani
📅 Every year, on 23 May
Castelnuovo Scrivia celebrates Saint Desiderius on 23 May.
Water made this place: here the Grue runs into the Scrivia, and the land is among the most fertile around. Everything has been grown on it, in order: first woad and mulberries, then vegetables and sugar beet, today wheat, maize and cereals. Over the Scrivia runs a nineteenth-century bridge with thirteen masonry arches.
The village was fortified on the order of Theodoric and enlarged by the Lombard king Liutprand in 722. As an ally of Frederick Barbarossa it took part in the destruction of Tortona in 1155 and won privileges in exchange, among them the right to fly the town flag; later Borso d'Este granted exemption from military service, and that too was shown by a flag on the tower. The humanist Matteo Maria Bandello came from here.
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chiesa di San Bartolomeo 📍 Trino · 12 km Trino's parish church, rebuilt after the 1628 siege, with a Giovenone triptych of 1516. chiesa di San Michele in Insula 📍 Trino · 12 km Trino's old pieve, on a site the Po once ringed: Romanesque frescoes of the twelfth century. Parco naturale del Bosco della Partecipanza e delle Grange Vercellesi 📍 Trino · 16 km A lowland wood surviving among the paddy fields, run by the same families since 1202. abbazia di Santa Maria di Lucedio 📍 Trino · 18 km Founded by Cistercians in 1123 among the marshes, today a working farm inside its walls. castello di San Genuario 📍 Crescentino · 20 km A monastery of 707, relics given by Lothair in 843, and a castle built to defend them chiesa della Beata Vergine Ausiliatrice 📍 Asti · 21 km Church of Viatosto in Asti, Romanesque and Gothic, with a bell tower of 1266, medieval frescoes and a wooden Madonna.