Patron saint festival In 285 days
Feast of Saint Anne
📅 Every year, on 26 July
On 26 July Castagnole Monferrato, a municipality of 1,271 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patroness Saint Anne (sant'Anna).
The name remembers the chestnut woods that covered these hills: gone long since, they gave way to vines, and only the name survives. The old municipal seal said as much, split in two: above the motto S. ANNA, below a chestnut burr. The village sits on the ridge dividing the Monferrato of Asti from that of Casale.
The vine here is Ruché, one of the rarest native grapes, which wants dry, chalky, sun-baked ground; its controlled designation of origin came in 1987. It is still a farming village, its old houses gathered round the bare-brick parish church of San Martino and the Annunziata confraternity; below run cellars cut into the tufa.
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.