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Gattinara Hills
Roasio
Small village among the wine hills
In the heart of the lower valley, well exposed and with a scattered municipal distribution, is the village of Roasio, a small but characteristic settlement that expands into various inhabited clusters on the gentle hills of the Gattinara territory.
Ancient documentary references attest to its remote origins, around the year one thousand, already within the competencies of the Vercelli church.
Thanks to the fertile composition of the land, Roasio has always been home to a plentiful agricultural activity, with orchards and vineyards, and products appreciated everywhere, such as the DOC wine Bramaterra and, in the plain area, rice production.
Roasio is thus expanded into five small hamlets, with its municipal seat in the locality of San Maurizio, which is the capital, followed by Santa Maria, Sant’Eusebio, San Giorgio, and Castelletto Villa, once autonomous, where the small lake Ravasanella lies; all the mentioned locations have sprung up around their respective churches, well worth visiting, starting from the oldest, Santa Maria, from 1054; also from the early years of the second millennium is the Bell Tower of the Church of Sant’Eusebio in Curavecchia, a church that was first abandoned and later returned to worship with restorations carried out on the beautiful Gothic frescoes.
Thanks to the fertile composition of the land, Roasio has always been home to a plentiful agricultural activity, with orchards and vineyards
The old parish church is dedicated to San Maurizio and dates back to 1200; notable are the Romanesque bell tower, diverse frescoes from various eras ranging from the 14th to the 18th century, the beautiful quartzite floor and mosaics. Also interesting as Lombard Gothic architecture is, in Curavecchia, the 15th-century Santa Maria “Dei Cerniori”, which preserves frescoes with the “stories of the saints”; still San Rocco in Castelletto Villa, where beautiful 17th-century altarpieces and a rare organ from the late 18th century can be found.
The art and architectural riches are complemented, in this surprising location, by the current new seat of the Parish, in Sant’Eusebio in Piedmontese Baroque style, in Noca the Oratory of San Pietro Martire, with a beautiful triptych of frescoes from the 15th century from a nearby abandoned chapel and finally the 14th-century remains of a large Square Tower, the bastion of a fortress that once stood on the hill overlooking the hamlet of San Maurizio.
Definitely recommended is a visit to the Museum of Emigration, a vibrant cultural reality in the village that has rightly crossed, and deservedly so, territorial borders and constitutes an important tool for historically documented studies on emigration.
Farmhouse
La Quercia Farm
The Agricultural Company “La Quercia” offers its visitors a modernrestaurant room. Our goal is to host the client in an elegant yet familiar atmosphere...
Roasio
Local cuisine
Farm-to-table cuisine/with self-produced ingredients
Farm-to-table cuisine/with self-produced ingredients
WINE
Podere Monolo Agricultural Company
(GATTINARA DOCG - COSTE DELLA SESIA DOC - BRAMATERRA DOC)A historic company that remained a farmhouse from the 1600s until the 1800s. After a renovation...
Roasio
WINE
La Palazzina Farm
(COSTE DELLA SESIA DOC - BRAMATERRA DOC)The Montà family began its winemaking journey in the 1930s in their historic eighteenth-century house. La Palazzin...
Roasio
WINE
La Ronda Farm
(COSTE DELLA SESIA DOC - BRAMATERRA DOC)This family-run business was born from the owner's passion for winemaking, inherited from his father. Over time, th...
Roasio
Fondo europeo agricolo di sviluppo rurale.
L'Europa investe nelle zone rurali.
PSR 2014 - 2020, Misura 19 - op. 7.5.2 tipologia 2
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