Patron saint festival In 256 days
Saint Peter the Apostle, patron of the Biella town
📅 Every year, on 29 June
Gaglianico celebrates Saint Peter on 29 June, in the church dedicated to him.
The name may come from the Latin patronymic Gallianus; another reading traces it to inhabitants of Celtic origin, referred to as Gaul or Caul. The present arms date from 1993 and replaced one used for nearly a century, which looked too much like the arms of the duchy of Savoy.
The parish church of San Pietro is a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century remaking of a building the documents already name in 1207; the bell tower was finished in 1727 and is the work, like the front, of Siletti of Mongrando. On the old road to Sandigliano stands the oratory of San Rocco, with sixteenth-century frescoes.
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Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.