Patron saint festival In 317 days
Feast of San Secondo
📅 Every year, on 29 August
On 29 August Magnano, a municipality of 378 inhabitants in the province of Biella, celebrates its patron San Secondo.
The name Magnano may come from the Latin magnus-anus, perhaps an estate name, or from manianus, the medieval craftsmen who made the iron handles here for the diocese of Vercelli. The village follows the ridge of the Serra d'Ivrea, its land scattered into farmsteads like San Sudario.
Held from the eleventh century by the chapter of Sant'Eusebio in Vercelli, Magnano fortified itself in 1204 to break away as a free borough: the houses climbed to a ricetto, still entered through its gate-tower. Its arms bear a golden tower with Ghibelline merlons and a black eagle. At Bose, by the Romanesque church of San Secondo, Enzo Bianchi founded a monastic community in 1965.
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chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.