Patron saint festival In 282 days
Feast of Saint James the Apostle
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Sparone, a municipality of 1,085 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron Saint James the Apostle (San Giacomo Apostolo).
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Above the village, on a height over the Orco valley, stand the ruins of the rocca. In the year one thousand Otto III took its feudal rights from Arduin, marquis of Ivrea, and gave them to the church of Vercelli; tradition has Arduin, by then king of Italy, holding out there between 1004 and 1005 against Henry II's army.
The castle came down in the sixteenth century and its stones went into local farmhouses; only the Romanesque church of Santa Croce stayed up, parish church until San Giacomo took over. Restoration uncovered late fourteenth-century frescoes: in the apse the four evangelists are not the usual symbols but men with great coloured wings.
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chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.