Patron saint festival In 96 days
Feast of Saint Sebastian
📅 Every year, on 20 January
On 20 January Grondona celebrates its patron Saint Sebastian; on the last weekend of August the town hosts the Sagra della capra e della fersulla.
The Spinti runs down to the Scrivia and gives the valley its name: Grondona is the only comune lying wholly within it. The village first appears in a document of 1164, in which Frederick Barbarossa confirmed the privileges of Pavia and made it subject to that city. In the thirteenth century it set up its own commune, the first podestà being the local lord.
Above the houses stands a round tower, all that survives of the Fieschi-Doria castle: abandoned since the late eighteenth century, it was brought down in 1934 by a landslide that killed ten people. A ring of projecting corbels and a few narrow openings show on the bare ridge.
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Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Rovigo · 20 km The church of San Domenico in Rovigo, born with a sixteenth-century hospital, with no façade and Baroque altars. Duomo di Rovigo 📍 Rovigo · 20 km Rovigo cathedral, dedicated to Saint Stephen, with its never-finished façade and works by Palma the Younger. Palazzo Roverella 📍 Rovigo · 20 km Rovigo's Renaissance palace with the Concordi gallery: Bellini, Palma the Elder, Tiepolo and major exhibitions. Chiesa dei Santi Francesco e Giustina 📍 Rovigo · 20 km Franciscan church in Rovigo, Gothic in origin and neoclassical today, with a Pietà by Tullio Lombardo. Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Sabbioni 📍 Rovigo · 21 km The church of Santa Maria dei Sabbioni in Rovigo, Romanesque-Gothic, now inside the town cemetery.