Patron saint festival In 258 days
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Desana, a municipality of 1,055 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patrons Saints Peter and Paul.
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In the fields between Desana and Trino, in the remains of a late Roman villa, came to light the treasure that carries the village name: fifty-one pieces of gold, silver and precious stones, buckles and dress fittings for men and women. A material trace of Ostrogothic Italian goldsmithing and of the élite who wore it.
From 1510 to 1693 Desana was a county, an imperial fief of the Tizzoni, with its own mint. The bishops of Vercelli had raised the castle to guard their land, and Arduin, margrave of Ivrea, took it from them; nothing of the medieval shape survives, because in 1840 Vitale Rosazza, a notary and businessman from Biella, rebuilt it from scratch.
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 200 m Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 2.8 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. viadotto Torrente Sori 📍 Sori · 5.5 km 105 metres above the valley: the Dywidag cantilever system made its Italian debut here in 1966. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Bargagli · 6.0 km Traso's parish church, dedicated to Milan's bishop in Genoese country. chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 5.9 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 6.1 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down