Patron saint festival In 25 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Villareggia celebrates its patron Saint Martin; since 2006 the town has revived the Palio dei Cantoni tradition.
Villareggia lies at the eastern edge of the Canavese, on the left bank of the Dora Baltea; the hill rising to the north, Moncrivello, already belongs to the province of Vercelli. In Piedmontese the village is La Vila Regia.
Of the old ricetto a tower and an arch are left. There are two churches of San Martino: the parish one, in the oldest part of the village, and a second on the hill above, yellow-plastered, with an oculus over the doorway and a flank of stone and brick. Santa Marta stands here too, and the sanctuary of the Beata Vergine del Trompone, just outside the houses but already on Moncrivello's ground.
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 4.3 km Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 5.9 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 8.4 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 8.5 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 basilica di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Camogli · 9.1 km Camogli's parish church, gilded baroque inside, built on a rock beside the old harbour Museo marinaro di Camogli 📍 Camogli · 9.2 km Ship models, pilot books and relics of a village fleet, collected by Gio Bono Ferrari from 1937