Cellio con Breia

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| image_caption = View of Cellio.

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| region = Piedmont

| province = Vercelli (VC)

| frazioni = Breia, Cellio

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| mayor = Daniele Todaro

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| area_total_km2 = 685

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| population_total = 992

| population_as_of = 31 August 2017

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| elevation_m = 685

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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.

History

= The Resistance =

Cellio was the site of no less than two partisan battles during the resistance.{{Cite book |title=il monte Rosa è sceso a Milano: la resistenza nel biellese nella valsesia e nella valdossola |location=Italy |pages=147-151, 358-360 |language=Italian |trans-title=Monte Rosa descended on Milan: resistance in the Biella area, Valsesia, and Valdossola}}

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.

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