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Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Gifflenga celebrates its patron Saint Martin, to whom the parish church is dedicated.
The name Gifflenga comes from the Germanic ghiffa, a boundary post, and is first attested in a document of 926; the same century already records the pieve of San Martino, in the Bonda quarter. The village lies along the Cervo torrent, on the road from Vercelli to Biella; it belonged first to the bishop of Vercelli, then to the Savoy and to the Avogadro and de Rege families, whose castle has left few traces.
The municipal arms gather it all: a red cloak parted by a sword for the gesture of Saint Martin, patron of the medieval pieve and then of the parish church; three rice plants, as many as the village's quarters; and a wavy blue bar for the waters of the Cervo. The pieve, which had a font as early as the tenth century, was destroyed by a flood in 1648, and the church that replaced it was built in the middle quarter, now called canton Chiesa. Rice has been grown here since the eighteenth century: the Baraggia variety.
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Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.