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Feast of the Assumption of Mary
📅 Every year, on 15 August
On 15 August Massazza, a municipality of 542 inhabitants in the province of Biella, celebrates the Assumption of Mary (Assunzione di Maria).
Massazza's castle stands on a spur of the Biella baraggia, but its earliest record is in Vercelli: until 1992 the village was in that province, and a charter of 1239 lists it among the Avogadro defences, where it most likely served as a prison. At first it was an enclosure and a square tower, a refuge for local people; the origin is probably Celto-Ligurian. It is now the Rocca dei Cavallari, in private hands.
The arms carry a small red chevron on silver and three stag heads, and the Latin motto makes one of them speak: you see my head struck off, severed from the neck in the slaughter of the hunt.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Massazza, but an easy day trip away.
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.