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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Porta Mosa 📍 Cremona · 7.3 km The last gate left in Cremona, medieval in origin, with a sixteenth-century archway and the bastion of San Giorgio. Chiesa di San Sisto 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Renaissance church in Piacenza that kept Raphael's Sistine Madonna, with the tomb of Margaret of Austria. Palazzo Farnese 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Great Farnese palace of Piacenza designed by Vignola, home to the civic museums with the Etruscan liver and Botticelli. Chiesa delle Benedettine 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Deconsecrated Baroque church of 1681 built by the Farnese, with a double church for nuns and faithful and a great dome. Basilica di San Savino 📍 Piacenza · 21 km Romanesque basilica in Piacenza with a Baroque façade of 1721, a crypt with zodiac mosaics and Saint Sabinus's relics. Violin Museum 📍 Cremona · 24 km Housed in Cremona's Palazzo dell'Arte, this museum displays masterpieces by Stradivari and the city's greatest luthiers.