Patron saint festival In 192 days
Feast of the Holy Bodies
📅 Every year, on 25 April
On 25 April Ruffia, a municipality of 350 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron, given as the «Corpi santissimi» (Most Holy Bodies).
Ruffia has been traced to one man's house: a document of 1143 calls it «domo Rodulfi», the house of a Rodolfo; the name then ran through Rodulfia, Rufa and Ruffa. By the later thirteenth century it was already «castrum et villa», and the castle stayed with the Cambiano, who bore its name, until the end of the eighteenth century.
In 1928 the comune was abolished and joined to Scarnafigi, which held the seat; Ruffia came back into being only in 1947. Its arms are a silver bend on a green field, charged with two shoots of the same green: the bend may repeat that of the Cambiano.
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Places to see within 25 km
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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.