Patron saint festival In 284 days
Feast of Saint James
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Gambasca, a municipality of 408 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron Saint James (San Giacomo).
Gambasca lies on the right bank of the Po, facing Monbracco, the last spur of Monviso above the Saluzzo plain. The land passed to the nuns of Rifreddo, whose abbess bore the title of Countess of Gambasca: in 1434 one of them, Mercia de' Pugneti, granted the statutes to the lands of Gambasca and Rifreddo.
The parish church of San Sebastiano stands at the village centre, built as a chapel in 1492 and consecrated by the bishop of Turin in 1497: a plain front under wide eaves, the dedication stone over the door, and behind it the bell tower with its clock and onion dome. Uphill and downhill the old hamlets are nearly all empty.
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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.