Patron saint festival In 45 days
Feast of Saint Andrew
📅 Every year, on 30 November
On 30 November Monesiglio celebrates its patron Saint Andrew; the town also preserves the Santuario di Santa Maria dell'Acqua Dolce.
The name has no settled explanation. Some trace it to a Mons occelli, the hill of the eyelet, a lookout over the Bormida; another reading points to a Monexilium, and so to monastic affairs, the exile of a few on a nearby height. Before the Romans this was Statielli Ligurian ground.
On the left bank of the river, among the trees, stands the pieve of Santa Maria dell'Acqua Dolce, known here as the Madonna di San Biagio: Ottonian diplomas name it plebs de Langa. Romanesque, it ends in three apses under small blind arches; in the middle one restoration brought back a Christ Pantocrator among the symbols of the four evangelists.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Monesiglio, 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.