Patron saint festival In 319 days
Feast of Sant'Innocenzo
📅 Every year, on the last Sunday of August
On the last Sunday of August Sezzadio, a municipality of 1,294 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Sant'Innocenzo.
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Until 1916 the village was called Sezzè; in Piedmontese it is still Atzé. It lies in the plain of Alessandria, on the right bank of the Bormida, and the first houses are thought to have grown around a posting station on the Roman road from Piacenza to Albenga. Local tradition has Aleramo, founder of the Aleramici, born here; the town arms are a variant of Alessandria's.
The abbey of Santa Giustina was founded in 722 by the Lombard king Liutprand, on his way to Pavia for the translation of Saint Augustine's body; Marquis Oberto enlarged it and the Benedictines kept it until 1474. Its front is brick and river stone, a square tower above.
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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.