Patron saint festival In 25 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Pasturana celebrates its patron Saint Martin, to whom the ancient Pieve di San Martino is dedicated.
Pasturana sits on the last hilly spurs of the Ligurian Apennines, and carries two dialect names: Pastiràuna in Piedmontese, Pastorànn-a in Ligurian. From 969 it belonged to the monastery of San Salvatore in Pavia, a distant landlord; much later it became a fief of the Spinola.
Palazzo Spinola stands above the houses, on a terrace held by a long slanting wall of brick and river stone. The pink front is long and low, with green shutters; on the main floor three windows sit inside arches of pale plaster, and below them a statue fills the niche above the door. A stone balustrade runs along its edge.
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ricetto di Candelo 📍 Candelo · 6.9 km Two hundred cells inside a pentagon of walls: one of the best preserved ricetti in Europe chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 7.1 km A Romanesque bell tower, a baroque front with a serliana, and a wall dated 1944 Villa Era 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 8.1 km An eighteenth-century farmstead turned into a show villa between 1884 and 1888 Castello di Castellengo 📍 Cossato · 13 km A tenth-century castle turned residence: the Frichignono arms and the Savoy siege that ended in 1409. Ecomuseo del Cossatese e della Baragge 📍 Cossato · 13 km A scattered museum of rural life, with the visitor centre for the Baragge reserve. Villa Ranzoni 📍 Cossato · 13 km The Ranzoni family's eighteenth-century villa, now the municipal library of Cossato.