Patron saint festival
Feast of the Holy Cross
📅 Every year, on 14 September
On 14 September Bee celebrates the Holy Cross; the village's parish church bears the same title.
Bée sits on a plateau above Lake Maggiore. A notarial deed of 1175 names a man called de Bee: the name was already in use. It has been supposed, without documentary proof, to come from the Latin beta, beetroot. From the late nineteenth century the village became a summer resort, and villas grew around the old core, among them the summer house of the German brewers Würer.
Santa Croce, the parish church, stands over the houses, an eighteenth-century building on the site of an oratory known from the sixteenth century; later work added two side aisles and the large entrance portico. The bell tower is of bare stone, with a clock below the bells.
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Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 5.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times. Riserva naturale stagno di Holay 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A hectare and a half of wetland at 750 metres, with relict species rare in the Aosta Valley. castello di Pont-Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km The old castle, with its rare hexagonal keep, half an hour up through the vineyards above the town.