Patron saint festival In 305 days
Feast of Santa Maria Assunta
📅 Every year, on 15 August
On 15 August Bioglio, a municipality of 986 inhabitants in the province of Biella, celebrates its patroness Santa Maria Assunta (Assumption of Mary).
The name Bioglio comes from betelleus, an adjective for the birch, perhaps in its medieval form bedolius, place of birches; in Piedmontese a birch is a biola. The land rises from the hamlet of Selva to the 889 metres of Monte Rovella, and the comune also holds an administrative island in the Valle Sessera, taking in the Cima dell'Asnas.
In 1964 Bioglio handed the hamlet of Pianezze to Camandona. At the foot of the Rovella stands the sanctuary of Banchette, named after the hamlet: a white plastered front, a two-arched porch on stone columns, a frescoed lunette over the door, a base left in bare stone.
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 200 m Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 2.8 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. viadotto Torrente Sori 📍 Sori · 5.5 km 105 metres above the valley: the Dywidag cantilever system made its Italian debut here in 1966. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Bargagli · 6.0 km Traso's parish church, dedicated to Milan's bishop in Genoese country. chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 5.9 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 6.1 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down