Patron saint festival In 251 days
Saint John the Baptist, patron of the Canavese town
📅 Every year, on 24 June
Bosconero celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 24 June, in the church dedicated to him.
The first documents date from 882 and call the place Roveredum, for the oaks that grew here. Then, since those woods had dark timber, the name became simply Bosco-nigro, the black wood. From the eleventh century the peasants of the abbey of Fruttuaria cleared the forest into fields; but the Orco flooded so often that in the fourteenth century the village was moved a couple of kilometres back from the banks.
The two hamlets that grew out of it, Bosco Negro and Lotti, were parts of Rivarolo, and only in 1694 were they joined into a comune of their own. Here, as across much of the Canavese, textile hemp was grown: in the Gerbido park you can still see the pits where the thread was dried, called canavere in dialect.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Bosconero, but an easy day trip away.
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.