The oldest documents, from 840 on, call the village Carpania; by 1367 only Garbagna remains, and in 1863 Novarese was added to avoid confusion with the other Garbagna, in the province of Alessandria. Carpania is taken to mean a wood of hornbeams, trees that like dry ground: among the many woods here, that one clearly mattered enough to deserve a name. Other readings prefer a Franco-Provençal word for basket, or a Latin one for bush.
Outside the village stands the oratory of Santa Maria, known as Madonna di Campagna, a small building from the late eleventh century, its front in brick and plaster under a pediment. Inside are thirteen fifteenth-century frescoes, several from the Cagnola workshop.
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📅 Every year, on 8 May
On 8 May Garbagna Novarese, a municipality of 1,350 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patron Saint Michael, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
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Outside Garbagna Novarese, but an easy day trip away.
