Patron saint festival In 281 days
Feast of Saint James
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Sala Monferrato, a municipality of 377 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint James (San Giacomo).
Sala stands on a hilltop in the Basso Monferrato, on marine sediments of the Miocene: they give the Pietra da Cantoni, the limestone used for building here since the year one thousand, soft enough to be hollowed into infernòt, the underground cellars for wine. Sala's own was dug by hand by Franciscan friars under the church of San Francesco, finished in 1844.
The village grew around the castle, whose oldest core is Lombard, on the plan of a ricetto. Disputed between the bishops of Asti and Vercelli, in 1164 it passed to the marquisate of Monferrato by Frederick Barbarossa's will. In the early seventeenth century the ducal Maestrato recorded that Sala's wines pleased the Gonzaga court.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Sala Monferrato, but an easy day trip away.
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.