Patron saint festival In 274 days
Feast of Saint Alexis
📅 Every year, on 17 July
On 17 July Miagliano, a municipality of 638 inhabitants in the province of Biella, celebrates its patron Saint Alexis (Sant'Alessio).
Miagliano is the smallest comune in northern Italy by area, second smallest in the country: no mountain hamlets, only the right bank of the Cervo. It governed itself from the mid thirteenth century but became a parish only in 1779, unlike its neighbours. Its church of Sant'Antonio Abate keeps an organ by Giovanni Bruna, a local man.
The rest is the doing of the Poma brothers, cotton spinners from Zumaglia. From 1865 the Biellese's first workers' village grew around their mill: lodgings for unmarried women workers, tenement blocks, a kitchen, a nursery, a clinic. Early in the twentieth century the firm employed three thousand. In 1929 Andorno swallowed the village; autonomy returned with the end of Fascism.
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