Patron saint festival In 300 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Pré-Saint-Didier celebrates Saint Lawrence in the church named after him. In winter, on 30 December, the village holds the Foire des glaciers.
The Abbé Henry told the story that the name comes from a priest who fled Lyon in 202, during the persecutions: Didier used to climb up to pray on the shelf above the village, and that meadow became Pré-Saint-Didier. The town, though, is known for two other things: its spa and the Verney gorge.
The territory of its 1,012 residents lies in the Valdigne, the upper valley of the Dora Baltea, at the foot of the gorge cut by the Dora di Verney at the mouth of the La Thuile valley. The climate is alpine and gives nothing away: short cool summers, hard snowy winters.
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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.