Patron saint festival In 25 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Orsara Bormida celebrates its patron Saint Martin; the municipal territory also holds the castle and a church dedicated to him.
Orsara Bormida lies on the right bank of the Bormida, in the province of Alessandria; in Piedmontese it is called L'Ursera. The village sits on a knoll, while the hamlets of Moglia, Piano, San Quirico and Uvallare stay lower down; the town's arms carry a red castle beneath a crowned black eagle on gold.
The castle stands on the pale rock shelf that carries the houses. Its watchtower was built in 1000 and in the fourteenth century a second, octagonal tower was added; an oratory adjoins the complex. From the valley you pick out the long wing with red shutters and the tiled roof of the tower.
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abbazia di Santa Maria al Porale 📍 Ronco Scrivia · 9.9 km Founded by Cistercians in 1208 for pilgrims on the Via Postumia, today a chapel with a fresco of 1446. Castello di Francavilla Bisio 📍 Francavilla Bisio · 10 km The medieval castle of Francavilla Bisio: towers, moat and six centuries of Spinola, Grillo and Guasco. Castello di Lercaro 📍 Ovada · 11 km A Lercaro fortified villa of 1570, given to the town in 1872 as a hospice, now a ruin chiesa di Nostra Signora Assunta 📍 Ovada · 12 km Sober baroque inspired by Genoa, with twin bell towers and Pietro Ivaldi's vault. chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Ovada · 12 km Founded by Dominicans in 1481, with a high altar brought from Genoa in 1690 chiesa dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Ovada · 12 km A plague vow of 1631, first stone in 1640, and an almost total rebuild after the 1935 fire