Patron saint festival In 316 days
Feast of San Giovanni Battista
📅 Every year, on 29 August
On 29 August Morano sul Po, a municipality of 1,511 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron San Giovanni Battista.
Morano's name appears in a document of 961, but the place is older: a late Bronze Age necropolis came to light at Pobietto, under a rice field. Three explanations of the name compete and none is decisive: gold in the alluvial soil, mulberries for silk, Saracen raids. The words "sul Po" come from a decree of 1862, to tell it from the Moranos of Calabria and Umbria.
Between town hall and parish church stands the Casa degli Archi, Gothic, of brick: pointed arches below, an open loggia above, the town library inside. Morano then lived a century on cement, the marl coming from the Coniolo quarries on carts ferried across the river.
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ricetto di Candelo 📍 Candelo · 6.9 km Two hundred cells inside a pentagon of walls: one of the best preserved ricetti in Europe chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 7.1 km A Romanesque bell tower, a baroque front with a serliana, and a wall dated 1944 Villa Era 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 8.1 km An eighteenth-century farmstead turned into a show villa between 1884 and 1888 Castello di Castellengo 📍 Cossato · 13 km A tenth-century castle turned residence: the Frichignono arms and the Savoy siege that ended in 1409. Ecomuseo del Cossatese e della Baragge 📍 Cossato · 13 km A scattered museum of rural life, with the visitor centre for the Baragge reserve. Villa Ranzoni 📍 Cossato · 13 km The Ranzoni family's eighteenth-century villa, now the municipal library of Cossato.