Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Alagna Valsesia, a municipality of 671 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
Alagna, Im Land in the language of its founders, began as a secondary Walser colony settled from Macugnaga and is on record from 1302. The larch-wood houses on stone bases are still there, and so is the speech: titzschu, one of three Walser varieties still alive in Italy.
Alagna is an old centre of mountaineering: the guides' association founded here in 1872 is the oldest in Italy after Courmayeur's, and the Regina Margherita hut, the highest refuge in Europe, is within the commune. Since 2019 the town has taken in Riva Valdobbia and is the largest in the province; on the arms the two villages' emblems sit side by side under Monte Rosa.
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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.