Patron saint festival In 28 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Torreano celebrates its patron Saint Martin; the town is also home to the Chiesa di San Rocco.
Pietra piasentina has been quarried here since Roman times, and for centuries it was the village's whole economy: it is reckoned that more than forty quarries once worked in this territory, and today's ones can be seen from kilometres away. The men who worked them had a name of their own, the picapiera, the stonecutters; and they work them still.
Torreano straddles two languages: down below they speak Friulian, in the upper hamlets a Slovene dialect. And the Friulian here has an oddity of its own: words end in «a» where ordinary Friulian puts an «e». On the south wall of the village's old bar the inscription «Torreano 1910» is cut: back then the village began there, today that point is the centre.
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