Patron saint festival In 281 days
Feast of Saint Christopher
📅 Every year, on 24 July
On 24 July Corsione, a municipality of 205 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron Saint Christopher (San Cristoforo).
The name of Corsione turns up as Curseonum in a bull of Pope Adrian IV in 1156, and as Curteseonis a few years later. Since the late Middle Ages the village has stayed gathered inside the walled core still called the Recinto, and it governed itself: the podestà was chosen by the council of the universitas, made up of the local elders, and at the end of his term his accounts were audited. A church of San Cristoforo appears in 1266, but the care of souls belonged to the rector of Santa Maria, the parish church outside the village.
The shield shows, on green, a castle in natural colours with a black gate and two Guelph-battlemented towers, charged with a blue escutcheon bearing a rampant lion and topped by a six-pointed golden star. In 1928 Corsione and neighbouring Villa San Secondo were abolished and joined into one municipality, Villa Corsione; the marriage did not last, and in 1947 the two villages went their separate ways.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 5.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times. Riserva naturale stagno di Holay 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A hectare and a half of wetland at 750 metres, with relict species rare in the Aosta Valley. castello di Pont-Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km The old castle, with its rare hexagonal keep, half an hour up through the vineyards above the town.