Patron saint festival In 303 days
Feast of Maria Assunta
📅 Every year, on 15 August
On 15 August Moncestino, a municipality of 228 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patroness Maria Assunta (Assumption of Mary).
Moncestino joins a strip of plain on the Po to the hill the village sits on, with the hamlets of Cignaretto, Coggia, Ganoia, Piagera and Seminenga. The castle on the hilltop rests on the ruins of an older one: on 12 September 1245 the marquis of Monferrato Bonifacio II invested the Miroglio with it, requiring them to fortify the site and live there; the family held Moncestino and Villamiroglio together until the division of 1407.
In the war of the Monferrato succession the Miroglio sided with the Gonzaga and the castle was destroyed by Savoyard troops; it was rebuilt in baroque form in 1650, with a two-tier front of pilasters and string courses. The arms repeat those steps: quartered, they carry a black eagle, a bunch of grapes, the six mirrors of the Moncestino family and the five red bends of the Del Carretto.
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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.