Patron saint festival In 292 days
Feast of Saint Eusebius
📅 Every year, on 2 August
On 2 August Agra, a municipality of 379 inhabitants in the province of Varese, celebrates its patron Saint Eusebius of Vercelli (sant'Eusebio di Vercelli).
The history of Agra can be read in the counting of its people. In 1751 there were four hundred and forty; the first town council was elected in 1821; the highest figure came in 1901, with eight hundred and fifty-four. Today there are fewer than half as many. In between the village had even grown, by taking in nearby Cossano.
The church of Sant'Eusebio is old, but what one sees was rebuilt in the thirties. Outside the village is the Parco Daini, a large enclosure where fallow deer and goats graze. And in autumn comes the feast of the pumpkin and the chestnut: the lanes of the old centre turn into a market, selling almost nothing but what those two things yield.
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Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 2.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. castello di Castellamonte 📍 Castellamonte · 16 km Seven gates in the curtain wall and a fief split into 271 points of jurisdiction. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Bard Fortress 📍 Bard · 19 km Rebuilt in the 19th century, this imposing Savoy fortress is a masterpiece of military engineering in the Aosta Valley. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times.