Patron saint festival In 156 days
Saint Joseph, patron of Arzergrande
📅 Every year, on 19 March
Arzergrande celebrates Saint Joseph on 19 March.
Arzergrande has 4,682 inhabitants in the Saccisica, and the name is one single thing: the embankment. One of the branches by which the Medoacus — the Brenta — once reached the sea passed this way, and the village grew up around its dyke; even today the provincial road that crosses the territory from west to east runs raised above the fields, and you can see that it is an embankment. Before the Romans this was the land of the Eneti, the ancient Veneti, and it was to the Veneti that Caesar granted Roman citizenship in 49 before Christ, with the lex Roscia.
The hamlet of Vallonga was an important place: the via Popilia ran through it, opened in 132 before Christ to join Adria to Aquileia, and there goods were sorted towards Padua by water, along the Medoacus Minor. In antiquity it was called Portus Aedro, or Mansio Eurone. The coat of arms of the comune comes from a Roman gravestone that turned up in a dig: on it an eagle grips thunderbolts in its talons, the symbol of the power of Jupiter.
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Places to see within 25 km
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chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.