Patron saint festival In 303 days
Saint Mary the Most Holy Assumed into Heaven, patron of the land of Castelvecchio
📅 Every year, on 15 August
Bricherasio celebrates the Assumption of Mary on 15 August, in the church dedicated to her.
The name comes, some say, from the Celtic personal name Briccarius or Brittgarius; others take it from the Piedmontese brich, meaning a height. The first settlement lay off to one side, where San Michele stands today: the tolls, the awkward roads and the trade passing along the Val Pellice persuaded them to refound it in 1324 below the castle hill, where it is now.
In 1594 the rock, held by eight hundred French soldiers worn out by hunger and sickness, was besieged by a ducal army of some ten thousand. They held for a month and surrendered with the honours of war. The civil population came out of it reduced to 349 survivors.
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Bellagio and mid-lake Como 📍 Bellagio · 8.0 km Positioned at the fork of Lake Como, Bellagio combines Celtic and Roman history with a spectacular alpine landscape. Villa Melzi d'Eril 📍 Bellagio · 10 km The lakeside garden of Napoleon's duke, with azaleas and a Moorish kiosk. Villa Serbelloni Rockefeller 📍 Bellagio · 12 km The villa on the point of Bellagio, now a Rockefeller Foundation study centre. basilica di San Giacomo 📍 Bellagio · 12 km Bellagio's Romanesque basilica, baroque for two centuries then restored. duomo di Como 📍 Como · 13 km Como Cathedral, founded in 1396, featuring Late Gothic architecture, 16th-century paintings, and fine tapestries. Tempio Voltiano 📍 Como · 13 km A Neoclassical lakeside museum in Como dedicated to Alessandro Volta's scientific discoveries.