Patron saint festival In 271 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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Places to see within 25 km
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Cattedrale di San Donato 📍 Pinerolo · 3.6 km Pinerolo's Gothic cathedral, with the façade rebuilt after the earthquake of 1808 and the frescoes of 1887. Basilica di San Maurizio 📍 Pinerolo · 3.8 km The basilica on the hill of Pinerolo: fourteenth-century bell tower, five aisles and the tomb of the princes of Acaja. Ciabàs 📍 Luserna San Giovanni · 6.8 km The oldest Waldensian temple in Italy: built in 1555, rebuilt in 1708 and left as it was. Zoom Torino 📍 Cumiana · 12 km Eighty-four species in eleven habitats, where a small lakeside family park used to be Castello della Marsaglia 📍 Cumiana · 14 km The castle that gave its name to the battle of 4 October 1693 chiesa di San Giovanni Battista 📍 Barge · 15 km It collapsed in 1728 because the columns were too weak: Francesco Gallo rebuilt it