Patron saint festival In 310 days
Saint Bernard, patron of the land of the Bric Lombatera
📅 Every year, on 20 August
Paesana celebrates Saint Bernard on 20 August.
The town lies astride the Po, in two boroughs: Santa Margherita on the right bank and Santa Maria on the left. Of the castle that once rose above the hamlet of Erasca only bits of the foundations are left: the French destroyed it in 1585.
In the sixteenth century the ideas of the Reformation reached here from the Pellice and Chisone valleys, carried by the Waldensians, and Paesana became an important centre of them. Between 1510 and 1513 the marchioness of Saluzzo, Margherita di Foix-Candale, led a long series of repressions against four hamlets — Bioletto, Bietonetto, Croesio and Pratoguglielmo — which still bear names of Waldensian origin.
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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.