Patron saint festival In 202 days
Feast of Saint Godehard
📅 Every year, on 4 May
On 4 May Civiasco, a municipality of 265 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron Saint Godehard, to whom the parish church is dedicated.
Civiasco — Civiasch in the Valsesia dialect — lies in the small valley of the Pascone stream, on the left bank of the Valsesia. Its look comes from a disaster: a fire in 1779 destroyed almost the whole village. Those who rebuilt it had made money in the Iberian peninsula, where many locals emigrated in the eighteenth century, and brought home Hispano-Moorish forms still legible among the houses. The parish church dates from the seventeenth century.
Emma Morano was born here, the oldest living person in the world between 2016 and 2017 and the last woman alive born in the nineteenth century. The town hall holds the civic museum Ercole Durio founded in 1903, with artefacts, weapons and furnishings from the valley. The arms show an eagle, wings spread, on two green mounts before a snowy range, above a battlemented castle on a truncated rock.
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Near Civiasco
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Civiasco, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.