Dronero stands at the mouth of the Valle Maira, on a rocky spur where the Maira meets the rio Roccabruna. Its origin is traced to 1150, when the villages of Ripoli and Surzana, to defend themselves from raids, withdrew onto the triangle of land between the two streams and ringed the new settlement with walls, still partly visible.
The oldest document naming it is of 1155 and calls it ad Durcolium. After the marquises of Busca it passed for four centuries to the marquisate of Saluzzo, and in 1601 to the Savoys. In 1749 Charles Emmanuel III granted it the title of city, against a payment of seventy thousand lire.
Museo Mallé · chiesa dei Santi Andrea e Ponzio · Ponte del Diavolo
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Next up: Our Lady of Ripoli, patron of a town born from the union of two villages, Sunday 12 September
Nearest airport: Torino Caselle, 85 km away
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📅 Every year, on the second Sunday of September
Dronero celebrates Our Lady of Ripoli on the second Sunday of September; the town traces its origin to 1150, when the inhabitants of the villages of Ripoli and Surzana withdrew onto a triangle of land between the Maira and the Rigamberto stream for protection from raids.
Museo Mallé The family house of a Turin art historian, left to Dronero with everything still in it. 
chiesa dei Santi Andrea e Ponzio Dronero's parish church, begun in 1455 and consecrated six years later, with Gallo's dome. 
Ponte del Diavolo The battlemented bridge of 1428 over the Maira, Dronero's symbol: the builder's receipt survives. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Dronero, but an easy day trip away.
