Patron saint festival In 257 days
Feast of Saint Peter
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Pila, a municipality of 137 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron Saint Peter.
Pila sits on a slope of the northern Valsesia, in the province of Vercelli, on ground that rises sharply: the valley floor lies at about 686 metres, while the highest point of the municipality, uninhabited, reaches 1912 metres. Nothing is known of the first settlements; the name appears in documents only in 1217, when the village is recorded under the jurisdiction of the commune of Vercelli. From the mid-fourteenth century it belonged to the Visconti of Milan, and from the early eighteenth to the Savoys.
The coat of arms shows a chamois running across a meadow, with woodland behind. The church of San Pietro keeps fifteenth-century frescoes of apostles and prophets and an old wooden altar that probably came from Scopello; in Sant'Antonio the frescoes are seventeenth-century, and the oratory of Santa Caterina has saints painted on its outer walls. What little work is left is farming, mostly poultry.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Legnano · 2.1 km Medieval castle on an Olona island, once the convent of San Giorgio, with the Lampugnani keep of 1437-1445. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Legnano · 2.6 km Legnano's oldest church, rebuilt in 1590 and enlarged in 1740, with paintings by the Lampugnani. Basilica di San Magno 📍 Legnano · 2.8 km Renaissance basilica of the Bramante school built from 1504 to 1513, with Bernardino Luini's polyptych. Chiesa di Santa Rita 📍 Legnano · 3.2 km Church of the Purification, later Santa Rita, annexed to the Melzi institute, with Lampugnani frescoes. Museo civico Guido Sutermeister 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Legnano's archaeological museum, set up in 1929, with finds from the Copper Age to the Lombards and the Sala collection. Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Lombard Romanesque church of 1902 at Legnanello, with a Byzantine altar of Carrara marble and mosaics of 1923.