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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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.