For centuries Ronco made bielline, the terracotta crockery that reached much of northern Italy and the Ticino; an ecomuseum keeps many of the original pieces. At the end of the eighteenth century, in the wake of the revolution, Ronco declared itself an autonomous commune. In August 1944, after a clash between partisans and Nazi-Fascist troops, the reprisal burned many houses and the village barber was shot in the square, mistaken for a partisan.
The parish church of San Michele Arcangelo, built in 1600, has a single nave, a pulpit by Bartolomeo Termine and a Way of the Cross of 1750. Its stone bell tower carries two clock faces and a belfry plastered yellow.
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📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Ronco Biellese celebrates Saint Michael the Archangel; in mid-September the village also holds the Sagra del pailét, dedicated to terracotta craftwork.
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Outside Ronco Biellese, but an easy day trip away.
