Patron saint festival In 305 days
Feast of Santa Maria Assunta
📅 Every year, on 15 August
On 15 August Guazzora, a municipality of 313 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patroness Santa Maria Assunta (Assumption of Mary).
The name comes from the fords. Here the Tanaro and the Scrivia end in the Po, and to move from the Tortona country into the Lomellina, the Voghera or the Pavia lands you had to cross water, on foot or by boat; the place was called Guadatorium after its ferry. The settlement itself, the Curte Guazzatoria, grew up in the thirteenth century among reed beds left by a drained medieval lake.
Guazzora was open ground, unwalled, defended only by a castle: in 1314 Matteo Visconti had Montemerso restored and handed it to the de Curte, the Corti, to secure the Po crossing and the road to Tortona; the river ports were in their keeping. Pavese from the start, it passed to Piedmont in 1748 within the province of Voghera, and only a royal edict of the nineteenth century moved it to the district of Tortona. Its arms hold castle and farmland together: a red tower under a golden G and, in the other field, a cornucopia crowned with wheat ears and full of fruit.
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Places to see within 25 km
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chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.