Patron saint festival In 189 days
Saint George, patron of the land of Monte Fenera
📅 Every year, on 23 April
Valduggia celebrates Saint George on 23 April.
The name comes from the oldest part of the village, called Uggia; and that, in turn, is said to come from the uggia and thick winter fog of the valley. Under a similar name, Ucciae saltus et praedia, the territory already appears in Trajan's alimentary tables of 108, among the lands of the pagus Vercellensis.
Valduggia headed the Lower Court of the Valsesia and had its own statutes, confirmed by Gian Galeazzo Visconti in 1387 and in force until 1770, when the Savoyard constitutions arrived. Bells were once cast here; today it makes hydraulic equipment. The parish church of San Giorgio holds a Nativity attributed to Gaudenzio Ferrari, born in Valduggia.
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chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo 📍 Luni · 400 m Rothari levelled the Byzantine chapel; in the eleventh century Nicola rebuilt on its highest point. santuario di Nostra Signora del Mirteto 📍 Luni · 1.1 km In 1537 a painting wept tears of blood: from that grew the sanctuary above Ortonovo. chiesa di San Lorenzo 📍 Luni · 1.3 km Built between 1621 and 1645 on the ruins of a castle, a perpetual abbey since 1714. chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km Three naves on eight columns of Carrara marble, under a portal carved in 1671. Palazzo Amati Ingolotti Cornelio 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km A marchese rebuilt it for his duchess wife; its sixteenth-century cellars now pour the local wine. Luna 📍 Luni · 2.9 km Rome's marble port: forum, theatre and an amphitheatre for 7,000, at the mouth of the Magra.