Patron saint festival In 26 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Sala Biellese celebrates its patron Saint Martin in the main settlement, to whom the parish church is dedicated.
Sala Biellese lies on the morainic slope of the Ivrea amphitheatre, in the strip usually counted as Biellese rather than Canavese. The village still lived by hand weaving, kept going mainly by its women, when in 1896 the government tried to tax it as an industrial activity. The weavers rose up, the carabinieri fired into the crowd and four people died.
In January 1945 Radio Libertà, dismantled at Callabiana under enemy pressure, was moved here: the only partisan station speaking to civilians, it went back on air and carried on past the Liberation. The bell tower stands alone on the grass, with a clock, a sundial and bells in the arches.
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Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 5.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times. Riserva naturale stagno di Holay 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A hectare and a half of wetland at 750 metres, with relict species rare in the Aosta Valley. castello di Pont-Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km The old castle, with its rare hexagonal keep, half an hour up through the vineyards above the town.