Patron saint festival In 303 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Miasino, a municipality of 887 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
In the Middle Ages Miasino belonged to the bishop's fief of the Riviera di San Giulio, named after the man who evangelised those lands in the late fourth century. The centre sits on level ground among the mountains, Pisogno on the slopes of Monte Formica beyond the Agogna, Carcegna dropping towards Lake Orta.
San Rocco, the parish church, was rebuilt in 1627 to a design by the Milanese Francesco Maria Richino, but the front stayed unfinished until 1933, when Carlo Nigra of Turin closed it to the original drawing. The saint of Montpellier was chosen for the plagues out of Milan; the baroque work inside was paid by villagers who had emigrated to Lucca and Milan.
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ricetto di Candelo 📍 Candelo · 6.9 km Two hundred cells inside a pentagon of walls: one of the best preserved ricetti in Europe chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 7.1 km A Romanesque bell tower, a baroque front with a serliana, and a wall dated 1944 Villa Era 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 8.1 km An eighteenth-century farmstead turned into a show villa between 1884 and 1888 Castello di Castellengo 📍 Cossato · 13 km A tenth-century castle turned residence: the Frichignono arms and the Savoy siege that ended in 1409. Ecomuseo del Cossatese e della Baragge 📍 Cossato · 13 km A scattered museum of rural life, with the visitor centre for the Baragge reserve. Villa Ranzoni 📍 Cossato · 13 km The Ranzoni family's eighteenth-century villa, now the municipal library of Cossato.