Patron saint festival In 252 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Veglio, a municipality of 566 inhabitants in the province of Biella, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
The name Veglio has no certain explanation; the most accepted reading takes it from vegliare, to keep watch, for the sentinel position of the village above the Valle di Mosso, which catches the morning sun first. The territory runs down from the Valsessera ridge and includes a detached administrative island, the Alpe Montuccia, whose woods and pastures fall from the Monticchio to the Sessera.
In 1185 it was already noted as one of the largest and oldest cantons of Mosso Santa Maria, sharing one parish with it and with Mortigliengo; independence as a comune came only in 1742. On the Colmetto, north of the village, stand ruins read as anti-Dolcinian fortifications.
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certosa di Parma 📍 Parma · 8.3 km The charterhouse of Stendhal's title, now a police school and rarely open. Parma Baptistery 📍 Parma · 11 km Benedetto Antelami’s pink marble masterpiece, a European landmark bridging Romanesque and Gothic design in Parma. arco di San Lazzaro 📍 Parma · 9.8 km Arch of San Lazzaro in Parma, built in 1628 on via Emilia Est, restored in 2005. chiesa di San Sepolcro 📍 Parma · 11 km The Holy Sepulchre canons' church on the via Emilia, with a coffered ceiling. abbazia di San Giovanni Evangelista 📍 Parma · 11 km Correggio's second dome in Parma, and the Benedictine pharmacy with its jars in rows. teatro Farnese 📍 Parma · 12 km The Farnese wooden theatre in the Pilotta, inaugurated with a naval battle in the stalls.