Patron saint festival In 282 days
Feast of Saint James
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Monasterolo Casotto, a municipality of 101 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron Saint James (San Giacomo).
Monasterolo Casotto is all mountain ground, split between two hamlets, Sottana below and Soprana higher up. The name comes from a house of Benedictine monks who settled here around the year one thousand, though a nunnery tied to Pogliola di Morozzo already stood here in Lombard times. The rest of the name dates from 1862, when a royal decree let the municipalities of the province of Cuneo rename themselves: Monasterolo took that of the Casotto torrent.
Above Soprana stands the sanctuary of San Colombano, which appears on the town's arms: in the Monregalese valleys the Irish monk was shown as a Roman soldier, and outside it survives the arbi, a hollowed stone said to gather an oil that healed children's skin complaints. The two hamlets long had separate parishes; in the early twentieth century one church went up halfway between them, still keeping San Bernardo's bell. From 1928 to 1947 the comune was merged into San Michele Mondovì.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Monasterolo Casotto, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa dei Santi Martino e Rosa 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The Dominicans' church on the Monticano, in Conegliano: an unfinished brick façade and an Adoration of the Shepherds. chiesa dei Santi Rocco e Domenico 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The church of San Rocco in Conegliano, an ex-voto for the plague of 1630: twentieth-century façade, a De Min ceiling. duomo di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km Conegliano's cathedral, hidden behind the frescoed Scuola dei Battuti: inside is Cima's altarpiece of 1492. Museo civico di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km The museum in the tower of Conegliano's castle: picture gallery, detached frescoes and the panoramic terrace on top. chiesa di San Dionigi 📍 Conegliano · 17 km The parish church of Collalbrigo, a hamlet of Conegliano, rebuilt after the 1873 earthquake and consecrated in 1894. Chiesa di San Giorgio 📍 Pordenone · 21 km Pordenone church with a bell tower shaped like a Doric column and the statue of Saint George on top.