Flecchia

Flecchia
Frazione
Panorama from the parish church, the monte Barone in the background
Flecchia Location of Flecchia in Italy
Coordinates: IT 45°40′15″N 8°11′37″E / 45.67083°N 8.19361°E / 45.67083; 8.19361Coordinates: IT 45°40′15″N 8°11′37″E / 45.67083°N 8.19361°E / 45.67083; 8.19361
Country	Italy
Region	Piedmont
Province	Biella (BI)
Comune	Pray
Elevation^[1]	582 m (1,909 ft)
Population (2001)^[2]
• Total	194
Demonym(s)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	13867
Dialing code	(+39) 015

Flecchia is a frazione (and a parish) of the municipality of Pray, in Piedmont, northern Italy.

Name

In former times the village was named Flechia or Felicetum Libicorum.^[3]

Palazzo Riccio

Flecchia in 1305 was severely damaged by the followers of fra Dolcino, which set fire to it.^[3]

The local parish of Sant'Ambrogio was established in 1438.^[4]

Since 1928 it was a separate comune (municipality).^[4]

Palazzo Riccio (or palazzo Rizzi): the palace, which overlooks the village, was built in the 17th century on the remains of a middle ages fortress.^[5]
Saint Ambrogio parish church, which was built in its present form during the 17th century.

↑ Carta Tecnica Regionale raster 1:10.000 (vers.3.0), published by Regione Piemonte - 2007
↑ 14 °Censimento generale della popolazione e delle abitazioni, Istat on-line data: dawinci.istat.it (accessed in September 2013)
1 2 Goffredo Casalis (1840). Dizionario geografico-storico-statistico-commerciale degli Stati di S. M. il Re di Sardegna. 6. Torino: Maspero. pp. 667–668.
1 2 Flecchia, page on www.prolocopray.it (accessed on September 2013)
↑ Comuni della Provincia di Biella, AA.VV, Nerosubianco edizioni, Cuneo 2005

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