Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Michael
📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Villaromagnano celebrates Saint Michael in the church dedicated to him; the municipal territory includes Monte Bosso and Monte Gambera.
The name comes from villa romaniani, a quadrangle of houses packed around a small courtyard, with a big block in the middle serving as a tower. It sits on the hills south-east of Tortona, on the Ossona stream, where villae stood in the time of Julius Caesar; when the Roman empire ended the village was christianised and the churches of San Michele and San Giovanni went up.
The parish church still carries the first of those names, San Michele Arcangelo, also the patron. Its front is bare brick, a Latin plaque over the doorway, the clock tower rising behind. Fonti, a hamlet, has its own chapel, the Madonnina di Fonti.
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 4.3 km Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 5.9 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 8.4 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 8.5 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 basilica di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Camogli · 9.1 km Camogli's parish church, gilded baroque inside, built on a rock beside the old harbour Museo marinaro di Camogli 📍 Camogli · 9.2 km Ship models, pilot books and relics of a village fleet, collected by Gio Bono Ferrari from 1937