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Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, patron of the town of the ancient Falletti
📅 Every year, on 21 June
Villafalletto celebrates Saint Aloysius Gonzaga on 21 June.
The name comes from the Falletti, marquises of Barolo, who held the town as counts for almost half a millennium: from them the Latin Villafallettorum, and from that Villafalletto. Under them, in 1461, the community managed to give itself its first statutes; peace lasted until Christmas Eve 1487, when war with the marquisate of Saluzzo arrived.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti was born here, the anarchist who emigrated to the United States and was, with Nicola Sacco, condemned though innocent and executed in the electric chair in 1927. Part of his ashes came home: his sister Luigina brought them back, and they were laid in the family tomb. A plaque marks the house where he was born.
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ricetto di Candelo 📍 Candelo · 6.9 km Two hundred cells inside a pentagon of walls: one of the best preserved ricetti in Europe chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 7.1 km A Romanesque bell tower, a baroque front with a serliana, and a wall dated 1944 Villa Era 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 8.1 km An eighteenth-century farmstead turned into a show villa between 1884 and 1888 Castello di Castellengo 📍 Cossato · 13 km A tenth-century castle turned residence: the Frichignono arms and the Savoy siege that ended in 1409. Ecomuseo del Cossatese e della Baragge 📍 Cossato · 13 km A scattered museum of rural life, with the visitor centre for the Baragge reserve. Villa Ranzoni 📍 Cossato · 13 km The Ranzoni family's eighteenth-century villa, now the municipal library of Cossato.