Patron saint festival In 306 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Viale, a municipality of 261 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
Viale is a village of the Basso Monferrato, in the province of Asti; the houses follow a road that climbs and widens into the square, with steps up to the castle. Its arms show three green cypresses on gold between the capital letters C and V, and in the red chief a crowned golden barbel, emblem of the Balbiano counts, lords of the place.
The castle, medieval in origin, was destroyed and rebuilt more than once in the wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From the Balbiano it passed in the mid-nineteenth century to the Caisotti di Chiusano, who restored and enlarged it; in 1918 the municipality bought it and still has its offices there. Marble arms remain on the north front; the council chamber keeps three sixteenth-century portraits, two of the Balbiano and one of Duke Charles Emmanuel I. The parish church dates from 1710.
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chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.