Patron saint festival In 331 days
Feast of Saints Fausto and Felice
📅 Every year, on 11 September
On 11 September Cocconato, a municipality of 1,564 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron saints Fausto and Felice.
In the Middle Ages the village was the chief seat of the Radicati, counts of Cocconato, and held an imperial fief until 1586. The comune took over their arms: a crowned gold eagle on black and, below, an uprooted chestnut. Their time left the town hall, a rare civic building in late Gothic style; the parish church of Santa Maria della Consolazione is seventeenth-century.
Between 1940 and 1943 seventy foreign Jews from eastern Europe, families with children among them, were confined here: not a camp, but forced residence. When the Germans came the group scattered and all got away, most of them reaching Switzerland; nobody was arrested at Cocconato.
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certosa di Parma 📍 Parma · 8.3 km The charterhouse of Stendhal's title, now a police school and rarely open. Parma Baptistery 📍 Parma · 11 km Benedetto Antelami’s pink marble masterpiece, a European landmark bridging Romanesque and Gothic design in Parma. arco di San Lazzaro 📍 Parma · 9.8 km Arch of San Lazzaro in Parma, built in 1628 on via Emilia Est, restored in 2005. chiesa di San Sepolcro 📍 Parma · 11 km The Holy Sepulchre canons' church on the via Emilia, with a coffered ceiling. abbazia di San Giovanni Evangelista 📍 Parma · 11 km Correggio's second dome in Parma, and the Benedictine pharmacy with its jars in rows. teatro Farnese 📍 Parma · 12 km The Farnese wooden theatre in the Pilotta, inaugurated with a naval battle in the stalls.