Patron saint festival In 358 days
Feast of Saint Denis
📅 Every year, on 9 October
On 9 October Saint-Denis celebrates Saint Denis of Paris, who gives the village its name; at the beginning of December, instead, comes the mistletoe festival.
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In 1376 Amedeo VI of Savoy confiscated the fief from the Challant-Cly, accused of crimes and embezzlement: their tower, the castle of Cly, still dominates Saint-Denis from the promontory above Chambave, and it ended up on the comune's coat of arms.
The chapel of Saint-Évence stands where people came to pray before Christianity: a rock carving south-west of the entrance says so, the figure known as the orant. Not far off lies the ghost village of Barmaz. Through the vineyards of the 382 residents runs an old stretch of the Via Francigena, now waymarked in yellow as the Chemins des vignobles.
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chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo 📍 Luni · 400 m Rothari levelled the Byzantine chapel; in the eleventh century Nicola rebuilt on its highest point. santuario di Nostra Signora del Mirteto 📍 Luni · 1.1 km In 1537 a painting wept tears of blood: from that grew the sanctuary above Ortonovo. chiesa di San Lorenzo 📍 Luni · 1.3 km Built between 1621 and 1645 on the ruins of a castle, a perpetual abbey since 1714. chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km Three naves on eight columns of Carrara marble, under a portal carved in 1671. Palazzo Amati Ingolotti Cornelio 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km A marchese rebuilt it for his duchess wife; its sixteenth-century cellars now pour the local wine. Luna 📍 Luni · 2.9 km Rome's marble port: forum, theatre and an amphitheatre for 7,000, at the mouth of the Magra.