Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Bernardine of Siena
📅 Every year, on 20 September
On 20 September Moncucco Torinese celebrates Saint Bernardine of Siena; the village preserves the chapel dedicated to him.
The name is the mount of Jupiter: thirteenth-century documents call the pieve of San Giorgio di Vergnano, the church the medieval village grew around, Montis Jovis, and before that the Romans probably had a temple to Jupiter here. Moncucco appears as Montecuch in the diploma with which Frederick Barbarossa confirmed the holdings of William of Monferrato, issued at Belforte in 1164.
The lords had arranged with Chieri for their castle to be defended; Chieri's own troops ended up taking it and held it more than a century. In 1863 the inhabitants added Torinese to the name, to say which way they looked; in 1935 the comune entered the new province of Asti.
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Places to see within 25 km
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monastero di Astino 📍 Bergamo · 6.7 km The Vallombrosan monastery in a farmed valley at the gates of Bergamo. Città Alta and the Venetian Walls 📍 Bergamo · 8.1 km A 6,200-meter wall built by Venice in the 16th century, this UNESCO World Heritage site encloses Bergamo Alta. basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Bergamo · 8.1 km The church without a façade in Bergamo's upper town: Campione's lions and the intarsias designed by Lotto. Museo civico di scienze naturali Enrico Caffi 📍 Bergamo · 8.0 km The Città Alta museum with one of the world's oldest flying reptiles, found in a nearby valley. Casa natale di Gaetano Donizetti 📍 Bergamo · 7.8 km The house-museum where Gaetano Donizetti was born in 1797, with the family's basement rooms. chiesa di Santa Grata in Columnellis 📍 Bergamo · 7.7 km Church of Bergamo's oldest Benedictine monastery, on via Arena, with the remains of the ancient portico.