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Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, patron of the town of the ancient Falletti
📅 Every year, on 21 June
Villafalletto celebrates Saint Aloysius Gonzaga on 21 June.
The name comes from the Falletti, marquises of Barolo, who held the town as counts for almost half a millennium: from them the Latin Villafallettorum, and from that Villafalletto. Under them, in 1461, the community managed to give itself its first statutes; peace lasted until Christmas Eve 1487, when war with the marquisate of Saluzzo arrived.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti was born here, the anarchist who emigrated to the United States and was, with Nicola Sacco, condemned though innocent and executed in the electric chair in 1927. Part of his ashes came home: his sister Luigina brought them back, and they were laid in the family tomb. A plaque marks the house where he was born.
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Chiesa di San Pietro 📍 Cento · 8.9 km One of Cento's oldest churches, thirteenth-century, with a five-bay portico: three Guercino altarpieces once hung here. Basilica di San Biagio 📍 Cento · 9.1 km Cento's Baroque cathedral church, reopened in 2018 after the earthquake: an elliptical dome and two Guercino paintings. Rocca di Cento 📍 Cento · 9.4 km The fortress the Bolognese built in Cento from 1378: a keep, three corner towers and the cells used until 1969. Centro di documentazione del mondo agricolo ferrarese 📍 Ferrara · 16 km Museum of Ferrara's farming world at San Bartolomeo in Bosco, opened 1981, over ten thousand objects. Este Castle 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Built in 1385 around four imposing towers, this moated medieval fortress is the Renaissance centerpiece of Ferrara. cattedrale di San Giorgio 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Romanesque below, Gothic above: Nicholaus's façade, the merchants' loggias and the Months in the museum.