Legend places Cordèle, the mythical capital of the Salassi, on the Châtelair promontory. There is no proof, but in a field beside the Pompiod tower a Celtic coin imitating a Greek silver drachma came to light, and that coin ended up on the comune's coat of arms.
On the same promontory stand the little church of Saint-Georges, built in 1661 after the plague of 1630, and the ruins of the castle of Jovençan, known as the tyrants' castle: it dated from the thirteenth century and in the fourteenth the count of Savoy had it razed, so that only the base of a tower and a few walls survive. The 758 residents also have the Maison des anciens remèdes museum, open since 2011.
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📅 Every year, on 1 February
The patron of Jovençan is Saint Ursus, on 1 February; above the village, on the Châtelair headland, stand the ruins of the castle the Count of Savoy razed to the ground in the 14th century.
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Outside Jovençan, but an easy day trip away.
