Patron saint festival In 278 days
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene
📅 Every year, on 22 July
On 22 July San Marzano Oliveto, a municipality of 1,067 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patroness Mary Magdalene (Maria Maddalena).
The name honours Saint Marcian, perhaps the first bishop of Tortona, perhaps a bishop of Ravenna martyred there. Oliveto was added in 1862: some say olives once did well here until a frost killed most of the trees; others that it comes from rivé, the slope, the village standing on a steep hill.
From 1886 Methodists out of America made the first converts here; the temple was dedicated in 1897. The community opened a library and a school that took children to the fifth and sixth year, where the public one stopped at the third. A crenellated tower outside holds a bell, perhaps the only one in an Italian Methodist temple.
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ricetto di Candelo 📍 Candelo · 6.9 km Two hundred cells inside a pentagon of walls: one of the best preserved ricetti in Europe chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 7.1 km A Romanesque bell tower, a baroque front with a serliana, and a wall dated 1944 Villa Era 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 8.1 km An eighteenth-century farmstead turned into a show villa between 1884 and 1888 Castello di Castellengo 📍 Cossato · 13 km A tenth-century castle turned residence: the Frichignono arms and the Savoy siege that ended in 1409. Ecomuseo del Cossatese e della Baragge 📍 Cossato · 13 km A scattered museum of rural life, with the visitor centre for the Baragge reserve. Villa Ranzoni 📍 Cossato · 13 km The Ranzoni family's eighteenth-century villa, now the municipal library of Cossato.