Patron saint festival In 327 days
Feast of the Nativity of Mary
📅 Every year, on 8 September
On 8 September Rivarone, a municipality of 363 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patroness the Nativity of the Virgin Mary.
The first certain record is a document of 977 in which Otto I invested the bishop of Pavia with Bassignana and Rivarone, the two names side by side. The pairing returned almost a thousand years later, and not in Rivarone's favour: in 1928 the comune was abolished and its territory attached to Bassignana. It was restored in 1948.
The village stands on the plain beside the Tanaro. It gives its name to a cherry, the precoce di Rivarone, which ripens before the rest; the variety is thought to have been raised from seed and selected locally. The arms show a blue lion, crowned in gold, crossing a field banded black and silver.
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Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 5.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times. Riserva naturale stagno di Holay 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A hectare and a half of wetland at 750 metres, with relict species rare in the Aosta Valley. castello di Pont-Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km The old castle, with its rare hexagonal keep, half an hour up through the vineyards above the town.