Patron saint festival In 204 days
Feast of Saint Victor
📅 Every year, on 8 May
On 8 May Sizzano, a municipality of 1,446 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patron Saint Victor, to whom the parish church is dedicated.
Sizzano is an old village; the documents call it Sitianum, Siccianum, Sectianum. A stone set into the parish church front is written on both faces: a Roman inscription says Tito Tullio Maggiore had an existing bath repaired; the other side, cut much later, is the epitaph of a noble girl who lived one year, ten months and twenty-three days.
In 840 bishop Adalgisio gave the tithe of Sizzano to Novara cathedral; paid in wine, it lasted until 1974. In 1780 marquis Tornielli had a very old elm cut down: it served as the public notice board but shaded his garden. In exchange he paid for the Madonna del Rosario statue that still faces the road.
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chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo 📍 Luni · 400 m Rothari levelled the Byzantine chapel; in the eleventh century Nicola rebuilt on its highest point. santuario di Nostra Signora del Mirteto 📍 Luni · 1.1 km In 1537 a painting wept tears of blood: from that grew the sanctuary above Ortonovo. chiesa di San Lorenzo 📍 Luni · 1.3 km Built between 1621 and 1645 on the ruins of a castle, a perpetual abbey since 1714. chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km Three naves on eight columns of Carrara marble, under a portal carved in 1671. Palazzo Amati Ingolotti Cornelio 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km A marchese rebuilt it for his duchess wife; its sixteenth-century cellars now pour the local wine. Luna 📍 Luni · 2.9 km Rome's marble port: forum, theatre and an amphitheatre for 7,000, at the mouth of the Magra.