Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Maurice
📅 Every year, on 22 September
On 22 September Borgofranco d'Ivrea celebrates Saint Maurice; the town's main church bears the same title.
The balmetti are natural cavities in the mountain that people have turned over the centuries into cellars and larders: inside, the temperature stays constant, thanks to an air flow produced by natural geothermal effects. The name comes from balma, a shelter under rock, a cave. The Canavese variant of the Via Francigena runs along the via dei Balmetti.
The Roman via delle Gallie also passed here, the consular road Augustus had built to link the Po plain with Gaul. The Dora Baltea cuts the town in two: on the far bank lies Bajo Dora, a comune of its own until 1929, when it was merged into Borgofranco. The parish church of San Maurizio, rebuilt in the eighteenth century, was consecrated in 1762.
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Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 5.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times. Riserva naturale stagno di Holay 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A hectare and a half of wetland at 750 metres, with relict species rare in the Aosta Valley. castello di Pont-Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km The old castle, with its rare hexagonal keep, half an hour up through the vineyards above the town.