Patron saint festival In 282 days
Feast of Saint James
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Giarole, a municipality of 720 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint James (San Giacomo).
Giarole comes from glarea, Latin for gravel, which in the local dialect is giàra. The first settlement stood by the Grana stream, between today's church of San Pietro and the cemetery; then the Sannazzaro family raised their castle and the houses, for safety, crowded against its walls. Its arms carry a gold cornucopia full of fruit and a battlemented tower.
The castle, wanted by Frederick Barbarossa in the twelfth century, still shows its brick front with the sloping plinth, the sawtooth friezes and a two-light window high on the corner. In 1854 it was turned into a country residence in neo-Gothic forms; the cellars survive below, and the chapel keeps an altarpiece by Moncalvo.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Giarole, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa dei Santi Martino e Rosa 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The Dominicans' church on the Monticano, in Conegliano: an unfinished brick façade and an Adoration of the Shepherds. chiesa dei Santi Rocco e Domenico 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The church of San Rocco in Conegliano, an ex-voto for the plague of 1630: twentieth-century façade, a De Min ceiling. duomo di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km Conegliano's cathedral, hidden behind the frescoed Scuola dei Battuti: inside is Cima's altarpiece of 1492. Museo civico di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km The museum in the tower of Conegliano's castle: picture gallery, detached frescoes and the panoramic terrace on top. chiesa di San Dionigi 📍 Conegliano · 17 km The parish church of Collalbrigo, a hamlet of Conegliano, rebuilt after the 1873 earthquake and consecrated in 1894. Chiesa di San Giorgio 📍 Pordenone · 21 km Pordenone church with a bell tower shaped like a Doric column and the statue of Saint George on top.