Patron saint festival In 213 days
Saint Cyriacus and Pentecost, patrons of the land of the Torre Paleologa
📅 Every year, on Pentecost Tuesday
San Salvatore Monferrato celebrates Saint Cyriacus together with Pentecost on Pentecost Tuesday.
The town's first name was Villa ad Vites, the villa among the vines, and from 1048 it appears as castrum Sancti Salvatoris. The vines are still there: this is the lower Monferrato, hills and rows of vines as far as the eye can see. At the end of the nineteenth century, though, phylloxera brought the crop to its knees.
Above the town stands the Torre Paleologa, twenty-four metres, built in 1413 by Theodore II Palaiologos, who then governed the Monferrato. After the war recovery came from manufacturing and from the goldsmiths' district of neighbouring Valenza, which drew people to San Salvatore above all from two distant towns: Agerola and Leonforte.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside San Salvatore Monferrato, but an easy day trip away.
Cattedrale della Madonna del Ponte 📍 Lanciano · 5.7 km Lanciano's cathedral, built over the arches of a bridge, with the terracotta statue of the Madonna del Ponte. Chiesa di San Nicola di Bari 📍 Lanciano · 6.0 km The church of Lanciano's Sacca district, with a late Gothic bell tower and fourteenth-century True Cross frescoes. Punta Aderci Reserve 📍 Vasto · 20 km Established in 1998, this 285-hectare coastal reserve features sandy dunes and the towering Punta Penna lighthouse. Riserva naturale guidata Punta Aderci 📍 Vasto · 19 km The first reserve on the Abruzzo coast: 285 hectares of beaches, dunes and cliffs north of the port of Vasto. spiaggia di Punta Penna 📍 Vasto · 21 km The beach of sand and dunes below the Punta Penna promontory, inside the Punta Aderci reserve. Faro di Punta Penna 📍 Vasto · 22 km Vasto's 70-metre lighthouse, the second tallest in Italy after Genoa's Lanterna, with 307 steps to the top.