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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Places to see within 25 km
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chiesa dei Santi Martino e Rosa 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The Dominicans' church on the Monticano, in Conegliano: an unfinished brick façade and an Adoration of the Shepherds. chiesa dei Santi Rocco e Domenico 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The church of San Rocco in Conegliano, an ex-voto for the plague of 1630: twentieth-century façade, a De Min ceiling. duomo di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km Conegliano's cathedral, hidden behind the frescoed Scuola dei Battuti: inside is Cima's altarpiece of 1492. Museo civico di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km The museum in the tower of Conegliano's castle: picture gallery, detached frescoes and the panoramic terrace on top. chiesa di San Dionigi 📍 Conegliano · 17 km The parish church of Collalbrigo, a hamlet of Conegliano, rebuilt after the 1873 earthquake and consecrated in 1894. Chiesa di San Giorgio 📍 Pordenone · 21 km Pordenone church with a bell tower shaped like a Doric column and the statue of Saint George on top.