Patron saint festival In 248 days
Feast of San Luigi
📅 Every year, on 21 June
On 21 June Somano, a municipality of 361 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron San Luigi.
In the Alta Langa, Somano's castle has vanished twice. First in 1631, when most of it was destroyed; by the late fifteenth century the parish church of San Donato had already risen over the old castle church, turned slightly on its axis. Then in 1969, when the knoll it stood on was lowered by twenty metres; the town hall keeps its address on via Castello.
The parish holds an Avignon reliquary cross with a fragment of the Cross of Christ: how it reached the village is still unexplained. On the climb to the chapel of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel, fourteen Via Crucis shrines went up in the eighteenth century; five are left, and only one keeps its original picture.
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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.