Patron saint festival In 197 days
Feast of Saint Godehard
📅 Every year, on 2 May
On 2 May Torre Mondovì, a municipality of 494 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron Saint Godehard of Hildesheim.
In the local dialect the village is simply Tor, and a tower is what it carries on its shield: silver, with square Guelph merlons, drawn from the corner so two faces show, on a low green hill against blue. Roman remains have turned up, but the earliest known document is from 1159, a donation deed to the bishop of Asti. The tie held: feudal lords changed, the jurisdiction stayed Astigian.
The rest is a story of workshops. In the nineteenth century Torre had a foundry and a glassworks making bottles; the glassworks site later became a paper mill, and a small paper industry remains on the plain of San Gottardo.
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abbazia di Santa Maria al Porale 📍 Ronco Scrivia · 9.9 km Founded by Cistercians in 1208 for pilgrims on the Via Postumia, today a chapel with a fresco of 1446. Castello di Francavilla Bisio 📍 Francavilla Bisio · 10 km The medieval castle of Francavilla Bisio: towers, moat and six centuries of Spinola, Grillo and Guasco. Castello di Lercaro 📍 Ovada · 11 km A Lercaro fortified villa of 1570, given to the town in 1872 as a hospice, now a ruin chiesa di Nostra Signora Assunta 📍 Ovada · 12 km Sober baroque inspired by Genoa, with twin bell towers and Pietro Ivaldi's vault. chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Ovada · 12 km Founded by Dominicans in 1481, with a high altar brought from Genoa in 1690 chiesa dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Ovada · 12 km A plague vow of 1631, first stone in 1640, and an almost total rebuild after the 1935 fire