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 dei Santi Martino e Rosa 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The Dominicans' church on the Monticano, in Conegliano: an unfinished brick façade and an Adoration of the Shepherds. chiesa dei Santi Rocco e Domenico 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The church of San Rocco in Conegliano, an ex-voto for the plague of 1630: twentieth-century façade, a De Min ceiling. duomo di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km Conegliano's cathedral, hidden behind the frescoed Scuola dei Battuti: inside is Cima's altarpiece of 1492. Museo civico di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km The museum in the tower of Conegliano's castle: picture gallery, detached frescoes and the panoramic terrace on top. chiesa di San Dionigi 📍 Conegliano · 17 km The parish church of Collalbrigo, a hamlet of Conegliano, rebuilt after the 1873 earthquake and consecrated in 1894. Chiesa di San Giorgio 📍 Pordenone · 21 km Pordenone church with a bell tower shaped like a Doric column and the statue of Saint George on top.