Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Maurice
📅 Every year, on 22 September
On 22 September Sarre celebrates Saint Maurice in the church named after him, in the municipality of the royal castle.
In 1869 King Victor Emmanuel II bought the castle of Sarre and turned it into his hunting lodge, riding out from here after ibex in the Cogne, Valsavarenche and Rhêmes valleys, now the Gran Paradiso National Park. When his father Charles Albert abdicated in 1849, he took the title Count of Sarre for himself.
The castle, begun around 1242 by the lords of Bard, overlooks a sun-facing slope planted with vines since antiquity; a Roman milestone unearthed in 1898 records 200 miles to Lyon. Sarre's 4,857 residents make it the region's second-largest town after Aosta. Above the railway, the overhanging crag known as the Tetto holds some of Italy's hardest sport-climbing routes.
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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.