Patron saint festival In 340 days
Feast of Santa Lucia
📅 Every year, on the third Sunday of September
On the third Sunday of September Venasca, a municipality of 1,472 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patroness Santa Lucia.
Venasca sits at the mouth of the Valle Varaita, where the side valleys of Isasca and Rossana come in: two low saddles lead to Saluzzo and the Valle Maira. A dialect proverb warns that to see hell you should try Venasca in winter, when the north wind comes down the valley.
The crossroads brought a market: from the fifteenth century a weekly market served the lower valley, and in the early sixteenth Venasca worked the iron mined higher up. On a spur above the plain stands the chapel of the Nativity at Peralba, documented as early as 1143: the name probably comes from albus, white, after the colour of the local stone or building.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Venasca, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.