Patron saint festival In 189 days
Feast of Saint George
📅 Every year, on 23 April
On 23 April Zimone, a municipality of 425 inhabitants in the province of Biella, celebrates its patron Saint George; in mid-July the neighbourhood palio is held.
Zimone sits on the south-eastern crest of the Serra, at the Canavese edge. It has no hamlets, bar Sette Fontane, named from seven old wells on the Bertignano lake road. The name may come from dialect sumon, the linked inner courtyards of houses, or cimon, the hilltop.
The parish church of San Giorgio was finished in 1728 without its facade; the ochre front between stone columns came in 1820; the tower beside it, halted short of plan, rose only in the twentieth century. At San Rocco, now an ecomuseum of carts and cartwrights, no tower came: money ran short; the bell was housed on a corner of the facade, safe from thieves.
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Città Alta and the Venetian Walls 📍 Bergamo · 18 km A 6,200-meter wall built by Venice in the 16th century, this UNESCO World Heritage site encloses Bergamo Alta. Accademia Carrara 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The count founded the gallery and the school together, so pupils could copy from life. Teatro Gaetano Donizetti 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The theatre born where wooden huts once stood, now Donizetti's home. basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Bergamo · 18 km The church without a façade in Bergamo's upper town: Campione's lions and the intarsias designed by Lotto. chiesa dei Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The lower Bergamo church with the Martinengo altarpiece, Lotto's largest. chiesa di Santo Spirito 📍 Bergamo · 17 km Bergamo church called «of the Tasso», with Lorenzo Lotto's 1521 altarpiece and the via Pignolo chapels.