Locally the village is Biandraa, Biandrà in Piedmontese; both forms still live beside the official name. Of the eleventh-century castle only ruins are left. The parish church carries the name of Saint Columbanus, the missionary monk who came from Ireland, and three eighteenth-century buildings complete the place: the church of Santa Caterina, the sanctuary of the Madonna della Preiera and the town hall.
Santa Caterina is known by its pink and white front, closed above by a pediment and marked out by pilasters and niches. The inscription D O M runs over the wooden door, and at one side the bell tower rises under a small onion dome.
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August Biandrate, a municipality of 1,200 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patron San Sereno di Marsiglia.
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Outside Biandrate, but an easy day trip away.
