Patron saint festival In 284 days
Feast of Saint James
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Intragna, a municipality of 107 inhabitants in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, celebrates its patron Saint James (San Giacomo).
Intragna is the least populated comune of the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, clinging to the slope above Intra. The valley around it was long called Valle Intragna, while Intrasca, the name it carries today, once meant the present Val Grande, in whose national park some of its mountains lie. The name appears in a document of 1124, though people came far earlier: at Alpe Pechì, Alpe Steppia and the col of Pian Cavallone, cup-marked carvings attest a presence of three thousand years ago.
The parish church of San Giacomo Maggiore, in mid-village, goes back to the thirteenth century and was rebuilt in 1717. The comune has never adopted an official coat of arms: the one used in its communication was drawn by outsiders, quite independently of the administration, and shows on a green field two gold six-rayed stars set in bend sinister within a silver gemel.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.