Patron saint festival In 304 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Villette, a municipality of 264 inhabitants in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
Villette (Vilèt in the Ossola dialect) is the smallest municipality of the Vigezzo valley and sits on a sunny glacial and alluvial terrace along the southern slope of the Costa di Faedo. It is made of three clusters known here as ville — Gagliago to the west, Vallaro in the middle, Londrago to the east — and the name comes from them. Until the early nineteenth century Gagliago on one side, Vallaro and Londrago on the other quarrelled over subsistence, with repeated boundary disputes. Some thirty sundials, old and new, are counted on the walls.
Giovanni Zucono, called Zuccone, lived at Londrago: on 29 April 1494, furious over a gambling loss, he threw a stone at the fresco of the Madonna on the front of the parish church of Re, and next morning the image was bleeding. The episode was written down days later by the valley's podestà and signed by four notaries; the people of Londrago have been called Bociamadòn ever since. Of the Vallaro castle, which depended on Vogogna and served as a border stronghold, few traces remain.
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chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.