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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Places to see within 25 km
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chiesa dei Santi Martino e Rosa 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The Dominicans' church on the Monticano, in Conegliano: an unfinished brick façade and an Adoration of the Shepherds. chiesa dei Santi Rocco e Domenico 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The church of San Rocco in Conegliano, an ex-voto for the plague of 1630: twentieth-century façade, a De Min ceiling. duomo di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km Conegliano's cathedral, hidden behind the frescoed Scuola dei Battuti: inside is Cima's altarpiece of 1492. Museo civico di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km The museum in the tower of Conegliano's castle: picture gallery, detached frescoes and the panoramic terrace on top. chiesa di San Dionigi 📍 Conegliano · 17 km The parish church of Collalbrigo, a hamlet of Conegliano, rebuilt after the 1873 earthquake and consecrated in 1894. Chiesa di San Giorgio 📍 Pordenone · 21 km Pordenone church with a bell tower shaped like a Doric column and the statue of Saint George on top.