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Feast of San Grato
📅 Every year, on 4 September
On 4 September Ala di Stura, a municipality of 462 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron San Grato.
Ala gives the valley its name and is made of hamlets scattered across the slope; at Mondrone the Stura forms the Gorgia falls, a first drop of ten metres and then one of sixty-five. The name, most likely, comes from the Piedmontese ala, the shelter under which meetings were held, which came from the German halla.
The first document naming it is from 1267: Guglielmo di Monferrato granted the mines to one Barizelo di Gerola. Of the church of San Nicolao only the Lombard bell tower stands; in 1727 the parish church of Santi Nicolao e Grato replaced it, and on its stone flank, as on the houses, sundials are painted.
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Cattedrale della Madonna del Ponte 📍 Lanciano · 5.7 km Lanciano's cathedral, built over the arches of a bridge, with the terracotta statue of the Madonna del Ponte. Chiesa di San Nicola di Bari 📍 Lanciano · 6.0 km The church of Lanciano's Sacca district, with a late Gothic bell tower and fourteenth-century True Cross frescoes. Punta Aderci Reserve 📍 Vasto · 20 km Established in 1998, this 285-hectare coastal reserve features sandy dunes and the towering Punta Penna lighthouse. Riserva naturale guidata Punta Aderci 📍 Vasto · 19 km The first reserve on the Abruzzo coast: 285 hectares of beaches, dunes and cliffs north of the port of Vasto. spiaggia di Punta Penna 📍 Vasto · 21 km The beach of sand and dunes below the Punta Penna promontory, inside the Punta Aderci reserve. Faro di Punta Penna 📍 Vasto · 22 km Vasto's 70-metre lighthouse, the second tallest in Italy after Genoa's Lanterna, with 307 steps to the top.