Patron saint festival In 303 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Mombello Monferrato, a municipality of 1,087 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
The sanctuary of San Gottardo stands on the road between the hamlets of Gaminella and Pozzengo, and two stories still told there explain its origin: the bishop of Hildesheim appearing to snatch a child from a pair of bolting oxen, and the wayfarer who leaned on the portico wall, leaving the saint's figure printed there, around which the first shrine grew.
The chapel enters a document in 1692, when prior Lodovico Mombellardo asked the bishop of Casale to make it a country church; the four-column pronaos with its tympanum is late nineteenth century. In the village itself, the church square turns up in Cesare Pavese's Il diavolo sulle colline.
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 4.3 km Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 5.9 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 8.4 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 8.5 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 basilica di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Camogli · 9.1 km Camogli's parish church, gilded baroque inside, built on a rock beside the old harbour Museo marinaro di Camogli 📍 Camogli · 9.2 km Ship models, pilot books and relics of a village fleet, collected by Gio Bono Ferrari from 1937