Patron saint festival In 100 days
Feast of Saint Gaudentius
📅 Every year, on 22 January
On 22 January Boca celebrates its patron Saint Gaudentius, whose name is also borne by one of the town's four districts.
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Boca lies in the hills of the province of Novara and gave its name to a red DOC wine. The counts of Biandrate held the land and in 1217 handed it to Vercelli, which granted it in fief to other lords of the same family: back to the start. Its arms carry three gold wheels, the emblem of the Rovida marquises, who held Boca until the feudal age ended.
The sanctuary of the Santissimo Crocifisso is the work of Alessandro Antonelli: a white colonnade and, behind it, a red brick block rising over two tiers of windows. The hill to the north-west has been in the Monte Fenera nature park since 1987.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Boca, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.