Patron saint festival In 250 days
Saint John the Baptist, patron of the town of Parco della Camarlona
📅 Every year, on 24 June
Romentino celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 24 June.
Nothing certain is known about the origin of the name. Some would have it from Roma ad Ticinum, later turned into Rumantisin; others from the role the village had in Roman times, that of a Romana mansio, a staging post where troops on the road to Gaul rested and took supplies.
The town lies in the plain west of the Ticino, and its map of water is almost entirely man-made: centuries of canal digging and of diverting watercourses have left a close net of ditches and channels, among them the Naviglio Langosco, the Naviglio Sforzesco and the Diramatore Vigevano. It is flat country, where the winter fog sits still for a long time.
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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