Patron saint festival
Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
📅 Every year, on 15 September
On 15 September Villanova Mondovì celebrates Our Lady of Sorrows; the village also has the Sanctuary of Saint Lucy.
The village ran away from the river. The first settlement stood at San Nicolao, but the Ellero changed course and ended up running under and inside the walls of the old parish church; the chapel raised on the ruins was levelled by another flood in 1300. The people then moved up to the hill of Villavecchia, where a small church already stood.
Independence had to be won more than once. Rewarded in the sixteenth century for its loyalty to Savoy with separation from Mondovì, it was besieged by the French, sacked and burned in 1554 and forced back together with the city; separation came again in the seventeenth century, and the autonomous comune only in 1698.
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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.