Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Roch and Saint Michael
📅 Every year, on 14 and 15 September
On 14 and 15 September Curti celebrates its patrons Saint Roch and Saint Michael; the village is home to the church of San Michele Arcangelo.
On the ancient Appian Way, in the territory of Curti, stands the Conocchia: a Roman mausoleum of the second century with eleven niches for the urns, so called because it resembles a spinner's distaff. Tradition holds that Flavia Domitilla is buried there too, niece of Vespasian, persecuted by Domitian because she was a Christian.
The village name, on the other hand, comes from the Lombards: when they took Capua they settled in a separate portion of the city and set their court there, as they did in Milan with the Cordusio and in Verona with the Cortalta. Out of that quarter Curti was born. Nineteenth-century excavations turned up a hundred and fifty tufa statues of Matres, mothers holding up to twelve newborns in their arms: a collection unique in the world.
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Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 2.8 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 Castellamonte 📍 Castellamonte · 16 km Seven gates in the curtain wall and a fief split into 271 points of jurisdiction. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Bard Fortress 📍 Bard · 19 km Rebuilt in the 19th century, this imposing Savoy fortress is a masterpiece of military engineering in the Aosta Valley. 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.