Almese lies in the lower Val di Susa, along the Messa stream, in a place that has always been a passage: from here people went down to Turin, across to the Canavese, and up the valley to the Alpine passes. The name comes from the Gallo-Roman Almo, and that of the stream from Mettius.
In the nineteen-eighties archaeologists from the university of Turin dug out a Roman villa that had belonged to a certain Calvinus, who lived off the traffic in goods and people at the customs post of Ad fines: it was abandoned in the fourth century and can now be visited. In the fourteenth century the village became a castle of refuge, and the Romanesque bell tower was turned into a massive defensive tower.
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📅 Every year, on 8 September; the hamlets of Rivera and Milanere have their own patrons
Almese celebrates the Nativity of the Virgin Mary on 8 September; the hamlets have their own patrons: Rivera celebrates Saint Stephen the Protomartyr on 26 December, Milanere the Assumption of Mary on 15 August.
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Outside Almese, but an easy day trip away.
