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Feast of San Bononio Abate
📅 Every year, on 30 August
On 30 August Settimo Rottaro, a municipality of 503 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron San Bononio Abate.
Settimo Rottaro sits on the eastern edge of the Canavese, near Lake Viverone. Rottaro may come from rubetum, the old name of a bramble-covered rise; other readings circulate, and one, the cart wheels of a place of transit, reached the coat of arms: three gold six-spoked wheels beside the number seven in Roman figures. Before 1227 the village leaves no written trace.
The patron is Saint Bononio, Bolognese abbot of Lucedio, whom legend credits with defeating a dragon risen from the lake. The parish church was begun in 1787 to a design by Carlo Andrea Rana, where the saint withdrew to pray in the eleventh century; above the doorway, the Madonna and Child with saints.
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Marinelli Bell Foundry 📍 Agnone · 10 km One of Italy's oldest family businesses, this pontifical foundry has been casting bells since 1040. chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Agnone · 10 km An emerald-green dome, a Gothic portal and a book museum inside the friary. chiesa di San Marco Evangelista 📍 Agnone · 9.8 km A Venetian winged lion carved over the portal of Agnone's mother church. chiesa di Sant'Emidio Vescovo e Martire 📍 Agnone · 10 km The Gothic portal and rose window of the church Agnone calls its duomo. Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 17 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carovilli · 18 km The marble font carved with the barons' portraits, in Carovilli's parish church.