Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Fontanile, a municipality of 566 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
In 1042 the name is Fontinalis; later Fontanellis and Fontanis, while locally Fontanilis takes hold, the form in the Mombaruzzo statutes of 1337, meaning “land rich in spring water”. The village had a moat and two rings of wall, with four towers named after the leading families: one is left, the Ansaldi tower.
In the sixteenth century the duchess of Mantua brought the Senate of Monferrato from Acqui and granted a Thursday market. Tired of a lord reviving feudal rights, the villagers turned to duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga, who drove him out for two thousand crosoni. The casaforte stood on today's piazza San Giovanni Battista, by the church and its brick bell tower.
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 200 m Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 2.8 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. viadotto Torrente Sori 📍 Sori · 5.5 km 105 metres above the valley: the Dywidag cantilever system made its Italian debut here in 1966. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Bargagli · 6.0 km Traso's parish church, dedicated to Milan's bishop in Genoese country. chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 5.9 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 6.1 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down