Cellio con Breia
Comune in Piedmont, Italy
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Cellio con Breia is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, established on 1 January 2018 by the merger of the former comuni of Breia and Cellio, in the lower Valsesia.
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| Comune di Cellio con Breia | |
View of Cellio. | |
  Cellio con Breia Location of Cellio con Breia in Italy  Cellio con Breia Cellio con Breia (Piedmont) | |
| Coordinates: 45°45′25.56″N 8°18′42.12″E | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Piedmont |
| Province | Vercelli (VC) |
| Frazioni | Breia, Cellio |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Daniele Todaro |
| Area | |
• Total | 685 km2 (264 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 685 m (2,247 ft) |
| Population (31 August 2017)[1] | |
• Total | 992 |
| • Density | 1.45/km2 (3.75/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | Official website |
History
The Resistance
Cellio was the site of no less than two partisan battles during the resistance.[2]
Moscatelli and Eraldo Gastone, in the first half of September 1943, placed a group of former English prisoners, partisan volunteers, in Agaria, a hamlet of Cellio.
It was the scene of a roundup on 19 January 1944. The Garibaldi Brigades had prepared various detachments on the roads leading to Cellio, such as the Gramsci detachment. Lorenzo Beltrametti fell in a vain attempt to blow up a German tank with a rudimentary device.
The Germans had the objective of neutralizing a Garibaldian command headquarters in Castagneia, just north of Breia. On September 9, 1944 the Loss flywheel even captured a tank which, however, cannot be used but only disarmed.
