Patron saint festival In 294 days
Feast of Saint Sixtus
📅 Every year, on 6 August
On 6 August Morbello, a municipality of 408 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint Sixtus (san Sisto).
Morbello, Mirbé in Piedmontese, lies in the Upper Monferrato, in the province of Alessandria; a tenth-century document already names it. In 1233 it submitted to the Republic of Genoa, and the holding was later shared with the Malaspina; in 1708 it passed instead into the orbit of the marquisate of Monferrato.
The ruins of the castle stand above the hamlet of Morbello Piazza: built in the twelfth century, held by several Genoese families, destroyed and rebuilt repeatedly from the seventeenth, it survives above all as a squared block of masonry. The Marocco and Ciglione towers are ruins too, and at Costa the church of San Rocco dates from about the eleventh century, heavily altered since.
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Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 24 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 24 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 24 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 24 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.