Patron saint festival In 110 days
Feast of Saint Blaise
📅 Every year, on 3 February
On 3 February Castel di Sasso celebrates its patron Saint Blaise with the Saint Blaise biscuits and the anointing of the throat, a rite against sore throats.
The comune is a scattered one, and its seat has changed four times: it was at Sasso to begin with, the medieval borough of which the ruins of the walls and of the church of San Biagio outside them remain; then it passed to the hamlet of Prea, from 1867 to Strangolagalli and from 1988 to San Marco, the newest of the settlements.
Outside the village, in the half-ruined chapel of the old cemetery, there are frescoes in Byzantine style, probably derived from those of the basilica of Sant'Angelo in Formis close by. The other borough, Vallata, is late-medieval and has parts in Catalan style. On the third of February, for Saint Blaise, they bake the saint's biscuits and anoint throats.
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Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 5.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times. Riserva naturale stagno di Holay 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A hectare and a half of wetland at 750 metres, with relict species rare in the Aosta Valley. castello di Pont-Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km The old castle, with its rare hexagonal keep, half an hour up through the vineyards above the town.