Patron saint festival In 326 days
Feast of San Grato
📅 Every year, on 7 September
On 7 September Camandona, a municipality of 359 inhabitants in the province of Biella, celebrates its patron San Grato.
Camandona has no single centre: the town hall stands in the hamlet of Bianco, the borgate strung along the slope above the Strona di Mosso. The name may come from the Piedmontese Cà bandonà, abandoned house: the place was a summer pasture the herdsmen left empty in the bad season, though other explanations exist. Permanent settlement is documented from 1446.
It bought its separation from Bioglio: Charles Emmanuel I granted the patent against sixty-three gold scudi and a third, and the boundaries were drawn in 1627 after bitter argument. One strip of it lies detached, an administrative island in the Valsessera; the borgate of Pianezze, split among three comuni, came only in 1964.
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Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Rovigo · 20 km The church of San Domenico in Rovigo, born with a sixteenth-century hospital, with no façade and Baroque altars. Duomo di Rovigo 📍 Rovigo · 20 km Rovigo cathedral, dedicated to Saint Stephen, with its never-finished façade and works by Palma the Younger. Palazzo Roverella 📍 Rovigo · 20 km Rovigo's Renaissance palace with the Concordi gallery: Bellini, Palma the Elder, Tiepolo and major exhibitions. Chiesa dei Santi Francesco e Giustina 📍 Rovigo · 20 km Franciscan church in Rovigo, Gothic in origin and neoclassical today, with a Pietà by Tullio Lombardo. Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Sabbioni 📍 Rovigo · 21 km The church of Santa Maria dei Sabbioni in Rovigo, Romanesque-Gothic, now inside the town cemetery.