Patron saint festival In 314 days
Feast of San Bartolomeo
📅 Every year, on 24 August
On 24 August Cunico, a municipality of 528 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron San Bartolomeo the apostle.
Cunico sits on a hill at the north-western end of the Monferrato, with ten more hamlets across the ridges and valleys. The Roman road from Hasta, today's Asti, to Industria on the Po passed this way: the village probably began as a staging post where the cemetery now stands, and Roman building material kept turning up there until recently.
In 1014 Emperor Henry II seized the lands of Cunico's lords, who had backed Arduin, king of Italy, and gave them to Leo, bishop of Vercelli. In 1462 the Miroglio family granted the village its statutes, kept in the municipal archive; of the castle on the hill behind the parish church nothing is left.
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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.