Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Maurice
📅 Every year, on 22 September
On 22 September Fénis celebrates Saint Maurice, the soldier saint dear to the Alpine valleys, in the church that bears his name.
In 1884, when Turin built the castle of its medieval village at the Valentino, the model was Fénis: the most photographed castle in the Aosta Valley, and the work of the Challant, who held the castellany, later barony, from the twelfth century until 1716.
The rest of the comune is another matter: the Val Clavalité, a wild side valley wedged between Champdepraz and Cogne. The cold of the shaded slope discouraged settlement and saved the forest, which covers 2,236 hectares, nearly a third of the territory. During the war the valley was the headquarters of the partisan brigades led by Émile Lexert; today the 1,766 residents live almost entirely down below, where the place names speak of cherry and apple trees.
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Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.