Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Michael
📅 Every year, on the last Sunday of September
On the last Sunday of September Malvicino celebrates Saint Michael in the ancient pieve dedicated to him.
Malvicino, Mavzin in Piedmontese, is the least populated municipality of the Alessandria area, and not even one village: its people are scattered across a dozen hamlets, Gramonda, Isola Buona, Pian Gallina, Redimuncè, Saliceto and the rest. The town arms carry a crowned black eagle on gold above a chequy band of black and silver.
The oldest thing stands outside the village. The pieve of San Michele, a monastic foundation perhaps Lombard, appears in a document of 1179 among the churches that Pope Alexander III recognised as dependent on the abbey of San Quintino di Spigno: a single bare-stone hall, a semicircular apse with a double-splayed window, and fragments of a late fifteenth-century Last Judgement. In 1577 the new parish church, same dedication, rose inside the village, and the pieve stayed put.
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Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.