Patron saint festival In 271 days
Feast of Saint Quiricus
📅 Every year, on 15 July
On 15 July Odalengo Grande, a municipality of 487 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint Quiricus (San Quirico).
The tower of San Quilico stands by the Stura stream, in the hamlet named after it: it was the bell tower of a parish church that has vanished, and now stands alone. It dates from the twelfth century. In a document of 1725 the bishop of Casale describes three naves and a roof in wretched condition, about to fall.
A cemetery lay beside it, eaten away bit by bit by the floods of the nearby stream; weapons and old coins turned up in the rubble, evidence of a settlement probably grown from a Roman pagus. The tower alternates grey tuff and pinkish brick, crossed arches below and four two-light windows on top.
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