Borgaro lies north of Turin, on the Roman road to Ivrea and the Lanzo valleys: in the fields towards Caselle, traces of Roman centuriation can still be read. The name may come from the Latin burgarium, a fortified settlement, and in the early twelfth century the village moved from the old road to today's centre, around the castle that is now a convent.
In 1746 the whole of Borgaro became a fief of the Birago, who took the title of counts: their double-crenellated bands are still on the town's arms. Until the mid twentieth century this was farming country; then the growth of Fiat and the Turin factories changed it within a few decades, and housing estates took the place of fields.
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📅 Every year, on the last Sunday of September
On the last Sunday of September Borgaro Torinese celebrates Saints Cosmas and Damian in their chapel, the only one of the town's old chapels to survive to this day, documented since 1386.
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Outside Borgaro Torinese, but an easy day trip away.
