- Carcegna
Carcegna is a small village located above the eastern shore of
Lake Orta , at an altitude of 490m, in theProvince of Novara ,Piedmont ,Italy . Administratively a "frazione " of the commune ofMiasino , it has 260 inhabitants, called "Carcegnesi". Its patron saint isSaint Peter , celebrated on29 June .Archaeological excavations have brought to light
Gaulish ,Gallo-Roman and Etruscan remains. In the outskirts of the village there are ruins of afortification , probably of Lombard origin.The village is mentioned in the "Liber Cleri" as dependent of the parish church of San Giulio in
1133 .The current church was built in
1661 over the foundations of the preceding Romanesque one. It has paintings byLuigi Scaramozza ,Giorgio Bonola andFederico Bianchi , andfresco s byLuca Rossetti .
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