Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Alexander Sauli
📅 Every year, on 11 October
On 11 October Calosso celebrates its patron Saint Alexander Sauli; the town also hosts the Fiera del Rapulé, with wine tastings in the "crotìn" carved into the tuff.
Calosso stands on a hill between the Nizza and Tinella valleys, the highest village in the diocese of Asti. Its name comes from the Roman family name Callocius. It first appears in a deed of 960, where one Arimanno de Calocio witnesses an exchange of land made by Bishop Brunengo.
The castle above the village was destroyed by the Guelph Solaro in 1318 and rebuilt at once; after the Peace of the Pyrenees in 1659 the Roero turned it into a country house, and the round tower and the ricetto arch remain. At San Bovo a pink chapel opens its porch onto the road, with a bell in the gable.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Calosso, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.