The name Cerrina may come from a Lombard word for ground thick with turkey oaks, an uncertain guess. The comune is a sum of villages: until 1928 Montalero and Rosingo were separate councils, and Montalero had its own arms, a crowned black eagle on gold with a red cross.
Montalero castle began as a fortified house over the Valle Cerrina, at a site once Mons Laurus, then Montalerius: a diploma of 1070 names it already, and in 1388 the lords invested with it took their surname from it. On the square at Cerrina, between the parish church of Saints Nazarius and Celsus and the town hall, stands a heavy fortified house, its pointed windows framed in terracotta.
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📅 Every year, on 28 July
On 28 July Cerrina Monferrato, a municipality of 1,495 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patrons Saints Nazarius and Celsus (santi Nazario e Celso).
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