Patron saint festival In 298 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Carisio, a municipality of 864 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
The name is traced to the Roman gens Carisia, which held an estate here; Roman remains have surfaced beside San Lorenzo, the parish church. The village is documented from 1134, but the turn came earlier: Roberto di Carisio backed Arduin of Ivrea, the emperor Henry II seized his goods and in 1014 handed them to the church of Vercelli, whose bishop enfeoffed the castle.
The castle was consortial, several fortified houses with a ricetto against the stronghold; what stands is the rebuilding after Facino Cane's Visconti troops destroyed it. The parish church, remade in the fourteenth century, keeps its Gothic bell tower. Carisio is the only municipality of the Vercelli province in the Biella diocese.
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chiesa dei Santi Martino e Rosa 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The Dominicans' church on the Monticano, in Conegliano: an unfinished brick façade and an Adoration of the Shepherds. chiesa dei Santi Rocco e Domenico 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The church of San Rocco in Conegliano, an ex-voto for the plague of 1630: twentieth-century façade, a De Min ceiling. duomo di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km Conegliano's cathedral, hidden behind the frescoed Scuola dei Battuti: inside is Cima's altarpiece of 1492. Museo civico di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km The museum in the tower of Conegliano's castle: picture gallery, detached frescoes and the panoramic terrace on top. chiesa di San Dionigi 📍 Conegliano · 17 km The parish church of Collalbrigo, a hamlet of Conegliano, rebuilt after the 1873 earthquake and consecrated in 1894. Chiesa di San Giorgio 📍 Pordenone · 21 km Pordenone church with a bell tower shaped like a Doric column and the statue of Saint George on top.