Patron saint festival In 25 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Costa Vescovato celebrates its patron Saint Martin, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
Until 1863 the village was called Costa; its second name recalls the bishops of Tortona, who held these lands as an enclave with full lordship. Costa appears in documents from 1187. In 1784 the bishops surrendered that sovereignty to the House of Savoy, taking in exchange Cambiò in Lomellina with the title of prince, the toll on the Po and the sturgeon fishing.
The coat of arms repeats it: a green hill with thirteen red houses and, on top, the church crossed by its bell tower, with a bishop's crozier in the corner. The parish church is Saint Martin's; Montale Celli, now a hamlet, was the pieve from which Costa broke away in the sixteenth century.
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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.