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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ricetto di Candelo 📍 Candelo · 6.9 km Two hundred cells inside a pentagon of walls: one of the best preserved ricetti in Europe chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 7.1 km A Romanesque bell tower, a baroque front with a serliana, and a wall dated 1944 Villa Era 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 8.1 km An eighteenth-century farmstead turned into a show villa between 1884 and 1888 Castello di Castellengo 📍 Cossato · 13 km A tenth-century castle turned residence: the Frichignono arms and the Savoy siege that ended in 1409. Ecomuseo del Cossatese e della Baragge 📍 Cossato · 13 km A scattered museum of rural life, with the visitor centre for the Baragge reserve. Villa Ranzoni 📍 Cossato · 13 km The Ranzoni family's eighteenth-century villa, now the municipal library of Cossato.