Patron saint festival In 74 days
Feast of Saint Stephen
📅 Every year, on 27 December
Cossombrato celebrates its patron Saint Stephen on 27 December; the town preserves the Castello di Cossombrato.
Cossombrato, Cossombrà in Piedmontese, is a village of the Astesana, held in the Middle Ages by the bishops of Asti. In 1290 the Guelph and Ghibelline fighting reached it. Its feudal lords were the Pelletta, bankers from Asti with lending houses in the Aosta Valley and Savoy; the town's rampant lion comes from their arms.
In 1320 the Pelletta built the castle, where they sheltered during their quarrel with the Solaro. Altered over the centuries, it keeps its main structures and stands above the street behind a brick wall, with a round corner tower and a small clock. The church of San Rocco dates from 1700; writings of the time say it was raised against foot-and-mouth disease.
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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.