The name probably comes from the wheat this plain has always given, and the coat of arms agrees: among ears of wheat and rice and cobs of maize sits a silver wheel of gorgonzola. The first written trace is a person, not a castle: one Johannes de Granocio, a witness around 829 in a Novara deed. The Vatican map of the Duchy of Milan of 1581 sets the village beside Monticello, garbled into Moricella.
At Monticello the church of Santi Gervasio e Protasio stands on the hilltop, up an old stone stair; in the fourteenth century it is already a pieve, though the present building, with statues on the front, dates from 1608.
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📅 Every year, on 19 June (Saint Mary of the Assumption on 15 August)
On 19 June Granozzo con Monticello, a municipality of 1,432 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates Saints Gervasius and Protasius, patrons of Monticello; in Granozzo the patron is Saint Mary of the Assumption, on 15 August.
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Outside Granozzo con Monticello, but an easy day trip away.
