Patron saint festival In 300 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Denice, a municipality of 190 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
At Denice a medieval tower 29 metres high stands on the rise of ground around which the old centre grew: square and slightly trapezoidal in plan, built in the late thirteenth century by the Del Carretto marquesses. Three rows of pointed arches alternating with a saw-tooth cornice run round the top; the original doorway is a pointed arch with architrave, and inside a staircase of a hundred steps leads to the summit, with a view over the village and the Bormida valley.
The tower is in the town's arms too, quartered with those of the families tied to its history: the bends of the Del Carretto, the hammers of the Ponzone and the pales of the Scarampi. The comune itself vanished for a while: in 1929 it was suppressed and its land joined to Montechiaro d'Acqui in the new comune of Montechiaro Denice; Denice became independent again in 1946.
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chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 12 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. basilica cattedrale di San Martino 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's cathedral, rebuilt by Tullio Lombardo in the sixteenth century, with Juvarra's bell tower. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 14 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 16 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 16 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt.