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MONASTERO
BORMIDA |
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Comune
di Monastero Bormida
P.zza Castello 1
Tel. 0141/88012
E-mail: monastero.bormida@tiscalinet.it
Web Site: www.comunemonastero.at.it
Mayor: Luigi Gallareto
Population: 970
Altitude: 192 a.s.l.
Carabinieri: Bubbio Tel. 0144/8103 |
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Monastero
– as the name would suggest –
was founded around 1050 by a group of
Benedictine monks who had been summoned
from San Benigno Canavese by Aleramo marquis
of Monferrato to plough and sow the land
laid waste by the invading Saracens. In
all probability there was probably a previous
Longobard monastery here, as indicated
by the worship of Santa Giulia, still
patron saint of the village today. For
many centuries the history of Monastero
went hand in hand with that of the monastery.
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| LOCAL
AREA-ECONOMY |
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historic part of the village still features
part of the original layout, with several
stone houses and a few late Medieval portals.
Monastero is a wine growing area, but goat
farming is another key activity, yielding
milk for the production of robiola di Roccaverano
DOP cheese. Other traditional produce includes
the local variety of hazelnut 'Tonda Gentile
delle Langhe’ and high quality salamis. |
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Monastero
was the birth place of Augusto Monti, writer,
anti-Fascist, mentor of Cesare Pavese. Among
other things he wrote ‘I Sansossi’,
an epic historic novel partly set in the
Langa Astigiana in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. He also wrote “Realtà
del Partito d’Azione” (1945):
published immediately after the liberation
and dedicated to Gian Carlo Pajetta, this
work heralded a new vision of the liberal
Communist ideology. |
| EVENTS |
Carnival:
Ash Wednesday – 9 pm Traditional Lent
choral.
Second Sunday in March – ‘Polentonissimo’
Fair and show of historic crafts – twinning
with French town La Roquette sur Var.
First Sunday in May: the fourth ‘Tour
of the Five Towers’, a walk among woods,
towers and castles.
Second weekend in May: Commemoration of the
40 year anniversary of the death of the Monastero
writer Augusto Monti.
Second Sunday in July: Summer festival in
piazza Castello.
Fourth Sunday in July: traditional Cattle
Fair of San Desiderio and gastronomic evening.
June/July/August: Summer events in Monastero,
with five-a-side football tournaments, tennis
and ‘pallapugno’ matches at the
Country Tennis Club.
There are also children’s activities,
musical evenings, theatre shows, cabaret and
gastronomic evenings organised by the various
local associations, and trekking on the paths
of Santa Libera and Moscato.
Sunday after the ferragosto holiday: Medieval
gastronomic evening in the castle.
Second weekend in September: participation
in the Festival delle Sagre in Asti.
October 2005/April 2006: Third theatre show
and music in Piedmontese dialect in the municipal
theatre.
Christmas: hot chocolate and mulled wine after
midnight mass, and Father Christmas with gifts
for the children. |
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