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Feast of San Bartolomeo
📅 Every year, on 24 August
On 24 August Morsasco, a municipality of 712 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron San Bartolomeo.
The arms of Morsasco carry what still stands above the village: a castle with Guelph merlons on a blue field. Castle and tower are recorded from the thirteenth century, and the place served as a defensive work before becoming a private house; it keeps a room for the old game of pallacorda, and in the cells the prisoners' drawings and scratches remain on the walls.
It was the marchese Pallavicino who restored it late in the nineteenth century. Lower down, the village gathers round the clock tower, pierced by an archway, and the house everyone calls del Boia, dated 1697; the parish church of San Bartolomeo is sixteenth-century.
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Chiesa di San Pietro 📍 Cento · 8.9 km One of Cento's oldest churches, thirteenth-century, with a five-bay portico: three Guercino altarpieces once hung here. Basilica di San Biagio 📍 Cento · 9.1 km Cento's Baroque cathedral church, reopened in 2018 after the earthquake: an elliptical dome and two Guercino paintings. Rocca di Cento 📍 Cento · 9.4 km The fortress the Bolognese built in Cento from 1378: a keep, three corner towers and the cells used until 1969. Centro di documentazione del mondo agricolo ferrarese 📍 Ferrara · 16 km Museum of Ferrara's farming world at San Bartolomeo in Bosco, opened 1981, over ten thousand objects. Este Castle 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Built in 1385 around four imposing towers, this moated medieval fortress is the Renaissance centerpiece of Ferrara. cattedrale di San Giorgio 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Romanesque below, Gothic above: Nicholaus's façade, the merchants' loggias and the Months in the museum.