Patron saint festival In 224 days
Saint Bovo, patron of the land of the two castles
📅 Every year, on 26 May
Caltignaga celebrates Saint Bovo on 26 May.
The name is thought to come from the Latin Celticus ager, the field of the Celts, and for once the etymology has proof underfoot: the stele known as the San Bernardino stone, which carries the longest Gaulish inscription ever found in Italy, came from here and now sits in the lapidary museum of Novara cathedral.
Along the road to Lake Orta runs the only Roman aqueduct ever found in the Novara area, uncovered by digs that began in 1964. It carried water to Novaria, but the place where it drew that water has never been located. Of the Caccia fief little survives: French armies destroyed the castle in 1525.
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 200 m Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 2.8 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. viadotto Torrente Sori 📍 Sori · 5.5 km 105 metres above the valley: the Dywidag cantilever system made its Italian debut here in 1966. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Bargagli · 6.0 km Traso's parish church, dedicated to Milan's bishop in Genoese country. chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 5.9 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 6.1 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down