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Feast of the Nativity of Mary
📅 Every year, on 8 September
On 8 September Ozegna, a municipality of 1,235 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates the Nativity of the Virgin Mary.
Ozegna has not always stood here: the first village lay about a kilometre to the south-east, around the chapel of San Besso, where burials, coins, roof tiles and spindle whorls have surfaced. Besso was a Roman Christian soldier martyred in Val Soana; his relics stayed there until the eleventh century, when king Arduin moved them to Ivrea cathedral.
Today's village grew out of the ricetto, the enclosure where crops and cattle were kept safe: between the Orco floods and the brigand bands people moved in, and by the fifteenth century the storerooms were houses. In 1432 the villagers won the protection of the Biandrate counts, who in return wanted the stronghouse turned into a fort.
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Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 2.9 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 4.1 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Chiesa di Santa Maria al Carrobiolo 📍 Monza · 4.8 km Church of Santa Maria al Carrobiolo in Monza, with works by Peterzano and Moncalvo, vault frescoed 1707-1709. Chiesa di San Pietro Martire 📍 Monza · 4.8 km San Pietro Martire in Monza, 14th-century church for the Dominican killed in 1252, with a 15th-century cloister. Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 5.1 km Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Duomo di Monza 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Monza Cathedral, founded by Queen Theodelinda around 595, home of the Iron Crown.