Cellio con Breia was born on the first day of 2018, when Cellio and Breia, in the lower Valsesia, merged after a favourable referendum. The comune has no single centre: it is a scatter of hamlets on the slopes, from Castagneia to Valmonfredo. Above them rises Monte Briasco, 1185 metres, whose position made it the hub of the partisan fight in the valley; in 1943 a group of former English prisoners, turned partisan volunteers, was placed at Agaria.
At Cellio the parish church of San Lorenzo stands at the top of the village, reached by a stairway between retaining walls; the stone bell tower, with its clock and open belfry, rises clear of the roofs.
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📅 Every year, on 24 June (Saint Lawrence on 10 August)
On 24 June Cellio con Breia, a municipality of 1,027 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates Saint John the Baptist, one of its two patrons; the other is Saint Lawrence, on 10 August.
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