Patron saint festival In 272 days
Saint Emilian, patron of the land of the San Michele Auditorium
📅 Every year, on 16 July
Villanova Monferrato celebrates Saint Emilian on 16 July, in the church dedicated to him.
Villanova Monferrato is not in the Monferrato: it sits on the left bank of the Po, the northernmost town of the Alessandria province, near Vercelli and the Lombard border. It began in 1136 as a cluster of houses under the bishops of Vercelli, probably to mind the woods at the Sesia confluence.
In 1197 Vercelli made it a free borough to expand against the marquisate of Monferrato, and in 1212 paid eighteen peasant families to move in and stay, taking land from Candia Lomellina and Cozzo. Facing the town hall, the oratory of the San Michele confraternity now serves as an auditorium.
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Porta Mosa 📍 Cremona · 7.3 km The last gate left in Cremona, medieval in origin, with a sixteenth-century archway and the bastion of San Giorgio. Chiesa di San Sisto 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Renaissance church in Piacenza that kept Raphael's Sistine Madonna, with the tomb of Margaret of Austria. Palazzo Farnese 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Great Farnese palace of Piacenza designed by Vignola, home to the civic museums with the Etruscan liver and Botticelli. Chiesa delle Benedettine 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Deconsecrated Baroque church of 1681 built by the Farnese, with a double church for nuns and faithful and a great dome. Basilica di San Savino 📍 Piacenza · 21 km Romanesque basilica in Piacenza with a Baroque façade of 1721, a crypt with zodiac mosaics and Saint Sabinus's relics. Violin Museum 📍 Cremona · 24 km Housed in Cremona's Palazzo dell'Arte, this museum displays masterpieces by Stradivari and the city's greatest luthiers.