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Feast of the Nativity of Mary
📅 Every year, on 8 September
On 8 September Strona, a municipality of 1,157 inhabitants in the province of Biella, celebrates the Nativity of the Virgin Mary.
Strona is a scattered municipality, its town hall in the hamlet of Fontanella Ozino. The name comes from the stream just to the west, whose name would come from Celtic roots for running water; the arms repeat it as a wavy blue band. Until the thirteenth century this was mostly forest, which around the year one thousand emperor Otto III gave to the bishop of Vercelli.
It was one of the five Mortigliengo cantons, with Mezzana, Soprana, Casapinta and Crosa; in 1627 they split into separate municipalities, Strona being the western part. From the late eighteenth century wool and hemp were woven here; the Rivetti mill opened in 1866.
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.