Patron saint festival In 297 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Pozzol Groppo, a municipality of 365 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
Pozzol Groppo is a federation of hamlets on a ridge between the Curone and Staffora valleys, none of which carries the comune's name: the town hall is at San Lorenzo. The name joins two places: Pozzolo, the little well of Latin puteum, probably a spring or trough, and Groppo, the height, the old name of Biagasco, a separate comune until 1928.
Both were under Tortona and in 1155 came to its aid against Frederick Barbarossa; in 1480 the Sforza sent five hundred foot soldiers to punish Pozzolo, accused of being a den of bandits. The Malaspina castle stands where a Roman watchtower once did, and the arms pair a tower with the family's flowering thorn.
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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.