Patron saint festival In 28 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Valgrana celebrates its patron Saint Martin, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
The name of Valgrana is old, older than the Romans: grana is supposed to come from crana, a crevice, and the valley gave the rest. The first inhabitants were shepherds, and their sharp cheese was already known. Of the Saracen-age castle only ruins are left: marshal De Brissac pulled it down in 1548.
In 1431 Costanzo di Saluzzo approved the statutes of Valgrana, and the village had its own rules. In the chapel of San Bernardo, Pietro da Saluzzo painted the four evangelists on the cross vault in 1473. The church of San Martino has a wholly painted front: San Martino on horseback in the lunette and three saints in niches.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Valgrana, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 12 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. basilica cattedrale di San Martino 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's cathedral, rebuilt by Tullio Lombardo in the sixteenth century, with Juvarra's bell tower. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 14 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 16 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 16 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt.