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Feast of the Nativity of Mary
📅 Every year, on 8 September
On 8 September Albugnano, a municipality of 541 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
They call it the balcony of the Monferrato: the flat top of the village, 553 metres, is the highest point of these hills, and a wind-rose table helps pick out the Alps. The castle tower stood there, taken in 1401 by Gascon mercenaries of the prince of Achaea, who pulled it down.
Outside the village stands the abbey of Santa Maria di Vezzolano, founded in 1095. Its gabled front is banded in brick and pale sandstone, with a loggia of small arches on colonnettes above the doorway and a row of statues in the niches. The nave flank repeats the blind arcading, and the detached bell tower opens two-light windows on each face.
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