Patron saint festival In 318 days
Feast of Sant'Agostino
📅 Every year, on 28 August
On 28 August Ferrere, a municipality of 1,602 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron Sant'Agostino.
Ferrere first appears in 1034 as Ferraria, among the holdings of the counts of Pombia. The village lies scattered over hills with saints' names: San Giuseppe is the highest, San Secondo the largest. In 1630 a ruinous flood and then the plague broke the valley floor, and many moved up to the heights, settling there and making hamlets that still stand.
San Secondo comes back in the church that rises above the trees, with its brick bell tower, a clock with two faces and a lantern on top. On the hill of San Defendente stands Castelrosso, the Garretti villa, castle-shaped but undefended, where Rita Levi Montalcini spent much of her youth with an uncle.
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chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.