Three explanations of the name are offered. The first takes it from moreta, land planted with mulberries, and cites the arms in support, where a mulberry appears with the motto Natura perficitur arte; but Moretta was already called this before mulberries were grown in Piedmont, which only began in the sixteenth century.
The second makes it a base of the Saracen Moors, though very little is known for certain about their raids here. The third, the most accepted, reads Moretta as a diminutive of morra, the rural halt where Benedictine monks stopped with their flocks. In 1362 the fief went to the Solari counts, and in 1369 the mercenaries of Facino Cane stormed the town.
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📅 Every year, on 24 June, with a procession through decorated streets; the Festa dei Coscritti the first week of September
Moretta celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 24 June, with the saint's statue carried in procession through the town's main streets, decorated by the residents; the first week of September instead brings the Festa dei Coscritti, celebrating the coming of age.
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Outside Moretta, but an easy day trip away.
