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Saint Victoria, patron of the land of the Turriglio
📅 Every year, on 3 September
Santa Vittoria d'Alba celebrates Saint Victoria on 3 September, in the castle dedicated to her.
At the crossing of the roads that linked Alba Pompeia, Pollentia and Augusta Bagiennorum stands the Turriglio: a Roman structure, round in plan on a square base, perhaps what is left of a temple.
The castle stands on the rock among the vineyards, with a square tower thirty metres high: it is first recorded for certain in 1154, when pope Anastasius IV calls it Castrum Sancte Victorie cum ecclesiis. It is privately owned now and has been turned into a hotel. One of the hamlets is called Cinzano, and the firm takes its name from it.
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ricetto di Candelo 📍 Candelo · 6.9 km Two hundred cells inside a pentagon of walls: one of the best preserved ricetti in Europe chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 7.1 km A Romanesque bell tower, a baroque front with a serliana, and a wall dated 1944 Villa Era 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 8.1 km An eighteenth-century farmstead turned into a show villa between 1884 and 1888 Castello di Castellengo 📍 Cossato · 13 km A tenth-century castle turned residence: the Frichignono arms and the Savoy siege that ended in 1409. Ecomuseo del Cossatese e della Baragge 📍 Cossato · 13 km A scattered museum of rural life, with the visitor centre for the Baragge reserve. Villa Ranzoni 📍 Cossato · 13 km The Ranzoni family's eighteenth-century villa, now the municipal library of Cossato.