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Feast of San Bartolomeo
📅 Every year, on 24 August
On 24 August Mezzana Mortigliengo, a municipality of 561 inhabitants in the province of Biella, celebrates its patron San Bartolomeo.
A local legend explains Mortigliengo with a battle said to have left many dead; the name appears in documents only around the year one thousand, in a diploma of emperor Otto III, while Mezzana marks its middle position. It was one of five cantons of the Mortigliengo, split into separate comuni in 1627.
The houses lie scattered. The parish church of San Bartolomeo, rebuilt in the seventeenth century, keeps a far older Romanesque bell tower, and the fresco of Saint Christopher from the tower now hangs indoors. At Mino an old house of stone piers and wooden galleries, under a deep overhanging roof, holds the Mortigliengo workshop museum, where walnut oil is pressed and apple vinegar made.
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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.