Patron saint festival In 316 days
Saint Liberatus, patron of the land of the Risorgiva spring
📅 Every year, on the last Sunday of August
Sant'Albano Stura celebrates Saint Liberatus on the last Sunday of August.
In the spring of 2009, during digging for the Asti-Cuneo motorway near the hamlet of Ceriolo, a Lombard cemetery came to light: some eight hundred graves over more than three thousand square metres, cut straight into the soil, without a wall. It stayed open just long enough to be studied, then it was covered again and the works went on.
For three centuries the bishops of Asti held both spiritual and temporal lordship here. When a coalition of towns — Alessandria, Mondovì, Cuneo, Busca, Savigliano — turned against them, the counts of Savoy brokered the truce, which confirmed the bishops in exactly the powers they had before. The coat of arms shows the Roman soldier Albano on horseback, martyred in the fourth century.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Sant'Albano Stura, but an easy day trip away.
Su Nuraxi 📍 Barumini · 15 km A UNESCO site since 1997, Su Nuraxi is Sardinia's grandest Nuragic village, built around a 17th-century BCE basalt towe… Chiesa dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Barumini · 16 km Barumini's late gothic parish church, a step away from the famous nuraghe. Chiesa di Santa Tecla 📍 Barumini · 16 km The Barumini church below street level, whose steps became a bench. Chiesa di Santa Lucia 📍 Barumini · 16 km Barumini's sixteenth-century church, with its loggia and two old bells.