Patron saint festival In 25 days
Saint Martin, patron of the land of the bishop's castle
📅 Every year, on 11 November
Albiano d'Ivrea celebrates Saint Martin on 11 November.
The name has two explanations and neither is certain: the Gaulish alb, meaning high ground, or the Latin albus, white. The village belonged to the bishop-counts of Ivrea and was fought over by Vercelli and Ivrea; in the fourteenth century the ricetti went up to defend it, part-fortified houses that served as storehouse and refuge, and traces of them can still be read.
The parish church of San Martino is the work of Francesco Martinez of Messina, Juvarra's great-nephew, built between 1775 and 1780. The bell tower is medieval, older than the church: of seven bells only five remain, eighteenth-century ones, because Napoleon's army took two away to cast cannon.
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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.