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Feast of Sant'Alessandro di Bergamo
📅 Every year, on 26 August
On 26 August Cessole, a municipality of 420 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron Sant'Alessandro di Bergamo.
Cessole's old village clings to the hillside halfway along the Langa Astigiana; the Bormida cuts the territory in two. Under German occupation two Jewish families were hidden here and survived the round-ups until they reached Switzerland. Yad Vashem declared their rescuers righteous among the nations: Emilio and Virginia Ambrostolo, Domenico and Luigia Brandone.
The parish church of Nostra Signora Assunta, or Santa Maria del Castello, was designed by Giacomo del Carretto, a pupil of Juvarra: two buildings stacked on the model of Assisi's basilica, with the oratory of the Disciplinati, the Batù, underneath. First stone in 1779. Under the arcades of San Rocco the val Bormida held its first market in 1640.
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Città Alta and the Venetian Walls 📍 Bergamo · 18 km A 6,200-meter wall built by Venice in the 16th century, this UNESCO World Heritage site encloses Bergamo Alta. Accademia Carrara 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The count founded the gallery and the school together, so pupils could copy from life. Teatro Gaetano Donizetti 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The theatre born where wooden huts once stood, now Donizetti's home. basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Bergamo · 18 km The church without a façade in Bergamo's upper town: Campione's lions and the intarsias designed by Lotto. chiesa dei Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The lower Bergamo church with the Martinengo altarpiece, Lotto's largest. chiesa di Santo Spirito 📍 Bergamo · 17 km Bergamo church called «of the Tasso», with Lorenzo Lotto's 1521 altarpiece and the via Pignolo chapels.