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Information about Roasio in the Province of Vercelli

The town hall of Roasio is very fragmented: its territory covers geologically different areas, from the northern hill, to the alluvial plane of the Rovasenda stream on the south. It is made of several hamlets and four parishes: Saint Maurice, Saint Mary, Saint Eusebius and Saint George.

The only medieval surviving structure is the Romanic bell tower of the church of Sanino Eusebius of Pecurilio, decorated with two levels of arches, whilst the existing ecclesiastical building probably dates back to the XIV century. Restructured in 1770, it was later on abandoned. The church became a simple graveyard church and was re-opened only two centuries later, in 1978, when it was totally restructured and the great internal fresco which decorates the apse was highlighted. The remains of the frescoes which decorates the façade instead date back to the XII and XVI centuries.

In the centre of the village, in front of the parish of Saint Maurizio, it is still possible to see the remains of the walls of the castle (destroyed in 1557 during the battle between the emperor Charles V and Francis I of France). These date back to the XII century. There are also the remains of a square tower built with stones with very regular corners alternated with herringbone stones and decorated with mortar lines.

There are two other Romanic bell towers, both modified in the upper part during the seventeenth century. They belong to the churches of Saint Mary and of Saint Mauritius. The latter was built on a previously existing Romanic church, restored and then included in the new building during the XVII century. Inside the Sanctuary of the Madonna dei Cernioni, in the Curavecchia hamlet, it is possible to admire precious sixteenth century frescoes.

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