Carcegna is a small village located above the eastern shore of Lake Orta

Lake Orta

Lake Orta is a lake in northern Italy west of Lake Maggiore.It has been so named since the 16th century, but was previously called the Lago di San Giulio, after Saint Julius , the patron saint of the region; Cusio is a merely poetical name...

, at an altitude of 490m, in the Province of Novara

Province of Novara

Novara is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Novara.It has an area of 1,339 km², and a total population of 365.156 . There are 88 communes in the province.-External links:*...

, Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

, Italy

Italy

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Administratively a frazione

Frazione

A frazione , in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere...

of the commune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

 of Miasino

Miasino

Miasino is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 40 km northwest of Novara...

, it has 260 inhabitants, called Carcegnesi. Its patron saint is Saint Peter

Saint Peter

Saint Peter or Simon Peter was an early Christian leader, who is featured prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. The son of John or of Jonah and from the village of Bethsaida in the province of Galilee, his brother Andrew was also an apostle...

, celebrated on 29 June.

Archaeological excavations have brought to light Gaulish, Gallo-Roman and Etruscan

Etruscan civilization

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 remains. In the outskirts of the village there are ruins of a fortification

Fortification

Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defence in warfare and military bases. Humans have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs...

, probably of Lombard

Lombards

The Lombards , also referred to as Longobards, were a Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin, who from 568 to 774 ruled a Kingdom in Italy...

 origin.

The village is mentioned in the "Liber Cleri" as dependent of the parish church of San Giulio

Saint Julius

Saint Julius is the name of:* Pope Julius I , pope from February 6, 337 to April 12, 352* See Julius and Aaron for Julius , British martyr* Saint Julius the Veteran, Catholic saint and martyr...

 in 1133.

The current church was built in 1661 over the foundations of the preceding Romanesque

Romanesque architecture

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 one. It has paintings by Luigi Scaramozza, Giorgio Bonola and Federico Bianchi

Federico Bianchi

Federico Bianchi was an Italian painter of the Baroque.He was born in Milan. He was a pupil, and subsequently son-in-law, of Giulio Cesare Procaccini. By the early age of seventeen he painted three works in fresco for the cloister of the monastery of the Padri Zoccolanti at Milan. Several other...

, and fresco

Fresco

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s by Luca Rossetti

Luca Rossetti

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