Cellio con Breia

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.

Cellio con Breia
Comune
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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	1.4/km2 (3.8/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.