Patron saint festival In 250 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Montemarzino, a municipality of 341 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
Montemarzino appears in a document of 1074 as Monsmorixinus, later Monsmorisinus and Montemurixino, forms meaning Monte Mauricino, the hill of the Moors, after a settlement of those people. For centuries an imperial fief of the Oltrepò Pavese, it passed in 1753 from the Spinola marquises to the House of Savoy.
The hamlet of Zebedassi gave its name to a rock: the quarry on the slopes of poggio Brienzone yielded a building stone matching no mineral then known, and they named it zebedassite; later analyses showed it was saponite. At Reguardia stood the elm of Montemarzino, twenty-eight metres tall, adopted by the village and tended for years until Dutch elm disease killed it.
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Places to see within 25 km
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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