Patron saint festival
Feast of San Remigio
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of October
On the first Sunday of October Pecetto di Valenza, a municipality of 1,233 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron San Remigio.
The old name was Pecetum Valentinum: the village stood beside Valenza, the stronghold guarding the Po crossings. It grew around a large Roman villa, country house, farm and workshop at once, above a branch of the via Julia Augusta towards present-day Asti; remains of the road have surfaced lower down, at Pellizzari.
On the tuff cliff above the village stood a castle, named in a thirteenth-century imperial bull among the Monferrato marquises' holdings. Fought over by Visconti and Aleramici, it was destroyed in 1557 in the war between French and Spanish: left are the foundations of a tower and the name La Rocca, where old astronomical instruments now stand.
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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.