The Bessa reserve was an open-cast gold mine, worked in protohistoric and then Roman times: what is left are heaps of pebbles, unmistakable at a glance, piled up while the gold was being sought. The via delle Gallie also crossed this land, the consular road Augustus had built to link the Po plain with Gaul.
The comune's two castles were destroyed in the same year: the Avogadro one was partly hit by German bombs on 10 October 1944, in reprisal, and the castle of Mongiovetto was reduced to rubble in the same circumstances. Of the first the estate and an English-style park remain.
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📅 Every year, on 24 June in Cerrione; Vergnasco celebrates Saint George and Magnonevolo Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Cerrione celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 24 June; the town's other two hamlets have their own patrons: Vergnasco celebrates Saint George, patron of its parish church, and Magnonevolo Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
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Outside Cerrione, but an easy day trip away.
