Sordevolo borders the following municipalities: Biella, Graglia, Muzzano, Occhieppo Superiore, Pollone, Lillianes.

The village is located in the Elvo Valley, a natural land at the foot of the Alps, in the middle of a religious and cultural area.

Sordevolo is also historically bound to the textile industry that influenced the life of the village for centuries.

The script is a text in verses written by Giuliano Dati, chaplain of the church of the Forty Saints Martyrs in Trastevere, Rome, at the end of the 15th century.

A copy of the original Roman manuscript printed in Turin in 1728 is now exhibited and preserved in the Museum of the Passion inside the Church of Santa Marta in Sordevolo.