Patron saint festival In 283 days
Feast of Saint Anne
📅 Every year, on 26 July
On 26 July Rocchetta Belbo, a municipality of 181 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patroness Saint Anne (sant'Anna).
Rocchetta Belbo is the first Alta Langa village you meet going up the Belbo valley, on the edge of the Asti country. The Langhe road once called Magistra Langarum ran through it, and along it, in the first days of November 1244, pope Innocent IV came by: fleeing the troops of Frederick II, after months in Genoa he reached Lyon across the fiefs of the Del Carretto and Monferrato, the Asti lands and Savoy.
The old village stood beyond the stream, at a place still called Rocchetta Vecchia; there the old church collapsed under rain and landslides, and the parish church that replaced it, wanted by archpriest Caffa, opened in 1869. It is dedicated to Saint Nicholas, while the patron of the town is Saint Anne. The arms hold the two crops of these hills: a purple bunch of grapes on blue and seven gold ears of wheat on red, with a gold lion on the green half.
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Città Alta and the Venetian Walls 📍 Bergamo · 18 km A 6,200-meter wall built by Venice in the 16th century, this UNESCO World Heritage site encloses Bergamo Alta. Accademia Carrara 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The count founded the gallery and the school together, so pupils could copy from life. Teatro Gaetano Donizetti 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The theatre born where wooden huts once stood, now Donizetti's home. basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Bergamo · 18 km The church without a façade in Bergamo's upper town: Campione's lions and the intarsias designed by Lotto. chiesa dei Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The lower Bergamo church with the Martinengo altarpiece, Lotto's largest. chiesa di Santo Spirito 📍 Bergamo · 17 km Bergamo church called «of the Tasso», with Lorenzo Lotto's 1521 altarpiece and the via Pignolo chapels.