Patron saint festival In 25 days
Saint Martin, patron of the land of the bishop's castle
📅 Every year, on 11 November
Albiano d'Ivrea celebrates Saint Martin on 11 November.
The name has two explanations and neither is certain: the Gaulish alb, meaning high ground, or the Latin albus, white. The village belonged to the bishop-counts of Ivrea and was fought over by Vercelli and Ivrea; in the fourteenth century the ricetti went up to defend it, part-fortified houses that served as storehouse and refuge, and traces of them can still be read.
The parish church of San Martino is the work of Francesco Martinez of Messina, Juvarra's great-nephew, built between 1775 and 1780. The bell tower is medieval, older than the church: of seven bells only five remain, eighteenth-century ones, because Napoleon's army took two away to cast cannon.
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Porta Mosa 📍 Cremona · 7.3 km The last gate left in Cremona, medieval in origin, with a sixteenth-century archway and the bastion of San Giorgio. Chiesa di San Sisto 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Renaissance church in Piacenza that kept Raphael's Sistine Madonna, with the tomb of Margaret of Austria. Palazzo Farnese 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Great Farnese palace of Piacenza designed by Vignola, home to the civic museums with the Etruscan liver and Botticelli. Chiesa delle Benedettine 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Deconsecrated Baroque church of 1681 built by the Farnese, with a double church for nuns and faithful and a great dome. Basilica di San Savino 📍 Piacenza · 21 km Romanesque basilica in Piacenza with a Baroque façade of 1721, a crypt with zodiac mosaics and Saint Sabinus's relics. Violin Museum 📍 Cremona · 24 km Housed in Cremona's Palazzo dell'Arte, this museum displays masterpieces by Stradivari and the city's greatest luthiers.