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Feast of Pope Marcellinus
📅 Every year, on 26 April
On 26 April Macra, a municipality of 52 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron Pope Marcellinus, after whom the parish church is named.
Macra, L'Arma in Occitan and Piedmontese, lies in the Valle Maira and depended on the priory of San Lorenzo di Oulx: a document of 1176 records that the inhabitants owed its clergy barrels of wine. The comune is split between the main village and the hamlets of Albaretto and Camoglieres, and its coat of arms is a single image, an uprooted tree on a blue field.
Above the Maira torrent stands the chapel of San Salvatore, founded between 1120 and 1142 by those same religious of Oulx: one nave, a truss ceiling, a bell tower at the apse end, a bellcote facade and a later porch on two columns. Inside, late Romanesque frescoes run along the walls with scenes from Genesis and a banquet with a dancer, perhaps Salome; those in the apse are fifteenth-century. It counts as one of the most important Romanesque cycles in western Piedmont.
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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.