Patron saint festival In 308 days
Feast of Sant'Agapito
📅 Every year, on 18 August
On 18 August Maggiora, a municipality of 1,742 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patron Sant'Agapito.
Maggiora is a village in the hills near Novara, and for a good part of the last century its name travelled through sport. From 1946 to 1974 the Balmone climb gave its name to a professional road race run on the streets of the village: Bartali, Coppi, Fornara, Gimondi and Merckx were among the winners.
In 1963 the local sports union levelled a motocross track at the Mottaccio del Balmone; it became Maggiora Park, which has hosted the Motocross des Nations three times. The Sport Club later opened the Pragiarolo, Italy's first permanent autocross ground. Among the houses stands the eighteenth-century church of the Holy Spirit.
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Places to see within 25 km
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chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 12 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. basilica cattedrale di San Martino 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's cathedral, rebuilt by Tullio Lombardo in the sixteenth century, with Juvarra's bell tower. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 14 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 16 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 16 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt.