Racconigi lies on the alluvial plain between Turin and Cuneo, squeezed between the last spurs of the Cottian Alps and the hills of the Roero. This is a land of water and springs, among the most fertile in the province: the Maira and its tributary the Mellea cross it, and at the northern boundary the Maira joins the Po.
Everyone knows it for the castle, a residence of the Savoy royals, where Umberto II, the last king of Italy, was born; around it spreads a wooded park of about 180 hectares planted with native species. Since 1985 the stork and waterfowl centre has stood in via Stramiano, set up to protect birdlife and reintroduce threatened species such as the white stork and the white-headed duck.
Castello Reale di Racconigi · chiesa di San Giovanni Battista · santuario reale votivo Madonna delle Grazie and 2 more
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Nearest airport: Torino Caselle, 48 km away
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📅 Every year, on the Monday after the third Sunday of September
In Racconigi the Baptist is not celebrated on 24 June as elsewhere, but on the Monday after the third Sunday of September: the holiday of the town of the royal castle.
Castello Reale di Racconigi From fortress to pleasure house: Guarini, Le Nôtre, Borra and the royal summer retreat. 
chiesa di San Giovanni Battista Racconigi's duomo: Francesco Gallo, eleven years of work and a dome at thirty metres. 
santuario reale votivo Madonna delle Grazie Born of the 1493 apparition to a deaf-mute shepherd, then three vows against plague and drought. 
chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore Rebuilt by Carlo Antonio Castelli between 1725 and 1727, reviewed by Juvarra 
Centro Cicogne e Anatidi Racconigi Founded in 1985 to bring back the white stork, extinct here since the eighteenth century. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Racconigi, but an easy day trip away.
