Patron saint festival In 97 days
Feast of Saint Gaudentius
📅 Every year, on 22 January
On 22 January Baceno celebrates its patron Saint Gaudentius, to whom the monumental church is dedicated; the town also has the Museo della Funivia di Goglio.
The name of Baceno is traced by some to the Roman Vacinum, a station here, by others to bascegn, beech wood. The first document dates from 1039, when Gualberto, bishop of Novara, handed the chapel of San Gaudenzio to the canons of Santa Maria; the village grew scattered around that church. The tower, raised before 1340, took tolls from caravans bound for Swiss markets.
The monumental church of San Gaudenzio was enlarged early in the sixteenth century: the stone front carries the rose window, the portal with the Adoration of the Shepherds and a large painted Saint Christopher. The bell tower ends in a spire.
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Chiesa di San Pietro 📍 Cento · 8.9 km One of Cento's oldest churches, thirteenth-century, with a five-bay portico: three Guercino altarpieces once hung here. Basilica di San Biagio 📍 Cento · 9.1 km Cento's Baroque cathedral church, reopened in 2018 after the earthquake: an elliptical dome and two Guercino paintings. Rocca di Cento 📍 Cento · 9.4 km The fortress the Bolognese built in Cento from 1378: a keep, three corner towers and the cells used until 1969. Centro di documentazione del mondo agricolo ferrarese 📍 Ferrara · 16 km Museum of Ferrara's farming world at San Bartolomeo in Bosco, opened 1981, over ten thousand objects. Este Castle 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Built in 1385 around four imposing towers, this moated medieval fortress is the Renaissance centerpiece of Ferrara. cattedrale di San Giorgio 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Romanesque below, Gothic above: Nicholaus's façade, the merchants' loggias and the Months in the museum.