Patron saint festival In 256 days
Saint Peter, patron of the land of the Orba stream
📅 Every year, on 29 June
Capriata d'Orba celebrates Saint Peter on 29 June, in the church dedicated to him.
The village first appears in writing in a deed of sale of 973: the son of the marquis Ildeprando hands over a few places to one Roprando, and Capriata is among them. Much later its capture, in 1625, opened the war between Savoy and Genoa.
The village is one of the main centres of the Novese, the strip of southern Piedmont named after Novi Ligure. Above the houses stand the ruins of the Castelvecchio, and stretches of the town walls and bastions are still visible. The commune was called simply Capriata: the Orba, the river on whose right bank it sits, entered the name in 1863.
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Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 2.9 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 4.1 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Chiesa di Santa Maria al Carrobiolo 📍 Monza · 4.8 km Church of Santa Maria al Carrobiolo in Monza, with works by Peterzano and Moncalvo, vault frescoed 1707-1709. Chiesa di San Pietro Martire 📍 Monza · 4.8 km San Pietro Martire in Monza, 14th-century church for the Dominican killed in 1252, with a 15th-century cloister. Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 5.1 km Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Duomo di Monza 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Monza Cathedral, founded by Queen Theodelinda around 595, home of the Iron Crown.