Patron saint festival In 252 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Barbaresco, a municipality of 677 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
The area was known as barbarica sylva, the barbarians' wood, where old Celtic peoples withdrew to worship the god Tanaro. The wine takes its name from the village, the arms tell the rest: on gold, a blue crenellated keep with a square tower, half ringed by a low wall, and the motto De Barbarisco turris et arx.
Tower and stronghold really exist: the brick tower still rises above the roofs, beside the parish belfry. Almost everyone here lives by the vine, and the wine has taken a church too, the deconsecrated nineteenth-century San Donato, now the regional wine house. Since 2014 it belongs to a vineyard landscape on the World Heritage list.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Legnano · 2.1 km Medieval castle on an Olona island, once the convent of San Giorgio, with the Lampugnani keep of 1437-1445. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Legnano · 2.6 km Legnano's oldest church, rebuilt in 1590 and enlarged in 1740, with paintings by the Lampugnani. Basilica di San Magno 📍 Legnano · 2.8 km Renaissance basilica of the Bramante school built from 1504 to 1513, with Bernardino Luini's polyptych. Chiesa di Santa Rita 📍 Legnano · 3.2 km Church of the Purification, later Santa Rita, annexed to the Melzi institute, with Lampugnani frescoes. Museo civico Guido Sutermeister 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Legnano's archaeological museum, set up in 1929, with finds from the Copper Age to the Lombards and the Sala collection. Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Lombard Romanesque church of 1902 at Legnanello, with a Byzantine altar of Carrara marble and mosaics of 1923.