The name is disputed. Flechia in 1871 and Olivieri in 1965 derive it from the gentile name Arrius with the Ligurian suffix -asco. A second version, less reliable, starts from ajra, the place where the corn was threshed. A third, resting on genealogical studies, has it that in 1326 count Bertolino Piossasco Di Rossi gave the borgo and the castle the name of a family, the Cavigliasso y Airasca, which had given history a number of admirals.
The place was a fief of the Piossaschi Derossi from the thirteenth century to the end of the eighteenth, and grew around a castle of which little now remains. At the end of the seventeenth century Catinat's French troops half destroyed it.
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📅 Every year, on 24 August, with the traditional Chicken Festival
Airasca celebrates the apostle Saint Bartholomew on 24 August; for the occasion, the town council, merchants and the «Amici di Bacco» association organise the traditional Chicken Festival, while the first Monday of April brings the Spring Fair.
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Outside Airasca, but an easy day trip away.
