Patron saint festival In 250 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Bolzano Novarese, a municipality of 1,176 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
Bolzano Novarese did not begin where it stands now: it comes from Ingravo, a settlement about which little is known, whose people moved down the valley, nobody knows why. Of that older seat the church of San Martino remains, rural Romanesque, of the twelfth century, with frescoes largely from the Cagnola workshop: today it sits inside the cemetery. The village belonged to the Riviera di San Giulio, a prince-bishopric, and between 1928 and 1947 it was absorbed into Gozzano.
The parish church of San Giovanni stands at the top of a stairway: a three-arched porch, the letters DOM under the gable, a stone bell tower with a slate spire.
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chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Norcia · 8.6 km Hilltop church of Campi Vecchio, destroyed in the 26 October 2016 earthquake; today a place of memory. chiesa di San Salvatore 📍 Norcia · 8.7 km Historic Romanesque church near Norcia built over a Roman temple, largely destroyed in the 2016 earthquakes. chiesa di Sant'Andrea 📍 Norcia · 8.7 km Campi's fourteenth-century parish church, badly hit in 2016; its medieval treasures now rest in Spoleto. chiesa della Madonna Bianca 📍 Norcia · 11 km A 14th-century church near Norcia, famous for its marble relief of the Madonna Bianca by Francesco di Simone Ferrucci. Sito archeologico di Forca d'Ancarano 📍 Norcia · 13 km An ancient Italic mountain sanctuary near Norcia, used from the 6th century BC as a sacred crossroads. basilica di San Benedetto 📍 Norcia · 15 km Built over the birthplace of Saints Benedict and Scholastica, this historic Norcia basilica reopened in October 2025.