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Feast of the Nativity of Mary
📅 Every year, on 8 September
On 8 September Canosio, a municipality of 82 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates the Nativity of Mary.
Canosio, Chanuelhas in Occitan, is an Occitan-speaking village of the Maira valley; its only hamlet, Preit, gives its name to the side valley up which an old military road climbs to the Gardetta plateau. The plateau is Italian geological heritage for its rock exposures, and on those tilted, fast-eroding beds a reptile's footprints came to light.
The tracks are about 250 million years old, from the start of the Triassic, and belong to an archosauriform, from the reptile stock that preceded the dinosaurs; palaeontologists judged them a new form and named it Isochirotherium gardettensis after the plateau. The municipal arms partly repeat those of the Alessi of Carrù, counts of Canosio from 1819: the crowned silver eagle, the silver tower with Guelph merlons and the chequy of red and silver.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Canosio, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.