Bussoleno lies in the Susa valley, and for centuries it grew on the people passing through: the Via Francigena coming down from the Mont Cenis crossed the Dora Riparia here, and the town lived on trade and hospitality. The name comes from the Piedmontese bussolin, meaning hawthorn; by other accounts from box, the plant that figures on the town's arms.
It stayed a modest fortified village until the railway came through, first the line to Susa and then the one to France through the Fréjus tunnel: at the junction of the two, Bussoleno station became important, and the town grew along with the station, the workshop and the cotton and steel industries.
Castel Borello · chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta · Museo del trasporto ferroviario attraverso le Alpi and 1 more
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📅 Every year, on 15 August
On 15 August Bussoleno celebrates Saint Mary of the Assumption in the parish church dedicated to her, which holds an Annunciation, a Madonna and Child, and a 14th-century wooden crucifix.
Castel Borello The Borello castle above Bussoleno, a wartime refuge and later home of Italy's meteorological society. 
chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta Bussoleno's parish church of 1724, its decoration halted by war and finished only in 1943. 
Museo del trasporto ferroviario attraverso le Alpi The museum of Alpine railway crossings, in the locomotive depot that closed in 1993. 
Riserva naturale dell'Orrido di Foresto The gorge cut into limestone, and Mediterranean junipers stranded here for seven thousand years. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Bussoleno, but an easy day trip away.
