Patron saint festival In 47 days
Feast of Sant'Evasio
📅 Every year, on 1 December
On 1 December Rocchetta Palafea, a municipality of 347 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron Sant'Evasio (Saint Evasius).
The name says what the place was: a small rocca, a garrison on a border hill above the Valle Belbo. The tower and part of its walls survive, and the coat of arms says the same: party per pale red and silver, a castle counterchanged, a central turret, Guelph merlons, black door and windows.
The tower is square, about 26 metres high, in roughly dressed tufa, and watched the roads below; its crown carries a double row of small hanging brick arches, Romanesque in manner. Restoration added an inner staircase up to the top openings. The place appears as a holding of the Colombi di Cuccaro in 960, until in 1116 the emperor Henry V granted the diocese of Acqui jurisdiction over the territory.
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