Patron saint festival In 281 days
Feast of Saint James
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Alto Sermenza, a municipality of 190 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron Saint James (San Giacomo).
Alto Sermenza was created on 1 January 2018 by the merger of Rimasco and Rima San Giuseppe, two villages of the val Sermenza, in Valsesia; the referendum of 11 June 2017 had ended with 85 votes in favour and 15 against. Awaiting a coat of arms of its own, the comune shows the two old ones side by side: Rimasco's stonecutter carving a head, and Rima's mountain with its watercourses.
The stonecutter is not decoration. Rima is a Walser village, settled by people who came down from Alagna over the Colle di Mud, and it worked artificial marble: a trade that took its craftsmen as far as Bucharest, and that the village now tells in a museum of artificial marble and a plaster cast gallery. The town hall is at Rimasco, where in 1925 a dam closed the stream where the Egua meets the Sermenza, forming the lake that feeds the hydroelectric plant at Fervento.
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Near Alto Sermenza
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Alto Sermenza, but an easy day trip away.
Castellazzo 📍 Caluso · 3.5 km The ruins of the medieval fort on the morainic hill that overlooks Caluso. chiesa di San Calocero 📍 Caluso · 3.5 km The ruins of a Romanesque church of 1177, the castle's own, with Roman bricks in its walls. Palazzo Valperga di Masino 📍 Caluso · 3.6 km The Valperga palace, now town hall and regional wine cellar, with a park turned botanical garden. Villa Griselli 📍 Caluso · 3.8 km An Art Nouveau villa of 1926, built at Caluso by a doctor home from Argentina. castello di Malgrà 📍 Rivarolo Canavese · 9.7 km A fourteenth-century castle on the plain, remade by Alfredo d'Andrade: the railway ran beneath it. chiesa parrocchiale di San Michele 📍 Rivarolo Canavese · 10 km An octagonal church of 1759, a masterpiece by Vittone, with a statue fished from the Orco.