Patron saint festival In 190 days
Feast of Saint George
📅 Every year, on 23 April
On 23 April Torresina, a municipality of 65 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron Saint George, to whom the parish church is dedicated.
Torresina stands on a hilltop, and its name comes from Torricella: the tower that explains it was built around 950, during the Saracen raids, and the village grew up around it. The comune was created as Torricella in 1829 and took its present name in 1892. The coat of arms holds both: a tower on one side, a ruined castle on the other.
The fief stayed with the marquises of Ceva until the seventeenth century, then passed to the Del Carretto under an unusual clause allowing inheritance through women as well as men. In April 1797 Napoleonic troops heading for the Pedaggera pass fought the Piedmontese defenders here, occupied the village and loaded it with requisitions and war taxes. The chapel of Santa Croce was built in 1844 in thanks for the end of a long famine, raised by the whole population working on feast days.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Legnano · 2.1 km Medieval castle on an Olona island, once the convent of San Giorgio, with the Lampugnani keep of 1437-1445. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Legnano · 2.6 km Legnano's oldest church, rebuilt in 1590 and enlarged in 1740, with paintings by the Lampugnani. Basilica di San Magno 📍 Legnano · 2.8 km Renaissance basilica of the Bramante school built from 1504 to 1513, with Bernardino Luini's polyptych. Chiesa di Santa Rita 📍 Legnano · 3.2 km Church of the Purification, later Santa Rita, annexed to the Melzi institute, with Lampugnani frescoes. Museo civico Guido Sutermeister 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Legnano's archaeological museum, set up in 1929, with finds from the Copper Age to the Lombards and the Sala collection. Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Lombard Romanesque church of 1902 at Legnanello, with a Byzantine altar of Carrara marble and mosaics of 1923.