Patron saint festival In 54 days
Feast of the Immaculate Conception
📅 Every year, on 8 December
On 8 December Roascio celebrates its patroness, the Immaculate Conception; the small town also preserves the Cappella di San Grato.
Roascio, Roass in Piedmontese, is a hill village in the province of Cuneo, next to Ceva, with just over eighty residents split between the centre and the hamlets of San Rocco, Sant'Anna, San Giovanni and Mondoni. Since the census of 1911 its population has fallen by three quarters.
The marquises of Ceva were lords here by 1260; the fief then passed through so many hands that by the mid-sixteenth century it was split between two private owners, Giorgio Castrucci of Mondovì and Giuseppe Rabbio of Cuneo. The parish church is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, and the land lies in the growing area of the alta valle Belbo potato, known elsewhere as Mombarcaro's.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Voghera · 7.0 km The fourteenth-century Visconti castle in Voghera, long a prison, with frescoes of the Muses attributed to Bramantino. Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Voghera · 7.4 km The Lombard Gothic church of the Dominicans in Voghera, with fifteen rosary chapels, now Franciscan. Chiesa di San Luca 📍 Pavia · 20 km Church in Pavia of 1586-1609 on the Via Francigena, its façade turned north towards the pilgrims. Chiesa dei Santi Primo e Feliciano 📍 Pavia · 21 km Twelfth-century Romanesque church in Pavia, with its original façade and Agostino da Vaprio's 1498 triptych. Torre civica di Pavia 📍 Pavia · 21 km Eleventh-century tower of Pavia, which collapsed on 17 March 1989: ruins and a 2014 memorial remain. Chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Pavia · 21 km Franciscan church in Pavia with a two-tone Gothic façade and double portal, a Visconti burial site.