Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Michael
📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Villamiroglio celebrates Saint Michael in the church of Santi Filippo e Michele; the municipal territory includes the Bricco delle Pietre.
Villamiroglio was once called Villa Santa Maria and later took the name of the Miroglio, counts of Moncestino, who held it in fief: the municipal arms are still that family's blazon. The earlier parish church was dedicated to Santa Maria, and on its site the church of Santi Filippo e Michele was begun in 1764. The village never gathered around a single centre: the houses lie in several clusters, known here as cantoni. The territory belonged to the diocese of Vercelli until Casale was made a diocese and took it over.
The church of Santa Liberata, of the late fifteenth century, is among the oldest places of worship in the Valcerrina and keeps seventeenth-century frescoes. At Vallegioliti the inhabitants obtained a church of their own, Santo Stefano, consecrated in 1823 by the bishop of Casale so they need not go to the main village for services; another church, dedicated to San Filippo, stands in the hamlet of Mezzalfenga. All the road signs in the comune are bilingual, Italian and Piedmontese.
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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.