Patron saint festival In 90 days
Feast of Saint Maurice
📅 Every year, on 15 January
On 15 January Re celebrates its patron Saint Maurice; the town hosts the Santuario della Madonna del Sangue.
Along with Ne and Vo', Re has the shortest name of any Italian comune. It is the last village in the Val Vigezzo before Switzerland: the houses gather round the sanctuary above the Melezzo, and the hamlets lie scattered from Folsogno down to Ponte Ribellasca on the frontier.
The sanctuary is dedicated to the Madonna del Sangue: by tradition, in 1494 a fresco of the nursing Madonna, struck by a stone, began to bleed, and two documents signed by the valley's podestà and several notaries recorded it. The church of San Maurizio is now enclosed in the sanctuary; in Milan the Vigezzo chimney sweeps met in a church named after the same miracle.
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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