Patron saint festival In 326 days
Saint Gratus, patron of the land of the Roc del Merlo
📅 Every year, on 7 September
Cafasse celebrates Saint Gratus on 7 September.
The name would come from Cafaxie, "scattered houses, houses in bunches", and it tells how the place began: small rural clusters and farmsteads on ground the waters of the Stura had left free. The oldest document to name it is a diploma of Conrad the Salic dated around 1000, where the form is Leocaffis: that Cafaxie derives from it is not proven.
The settlement was destroyed several times, by Hungarian raiders, by plague, by floods, and once the inhabitants crossed to the far bank of the Stura di Lanzo and founded a new village, which they called Villanova. From 1660 they asked to break away from Balangero and Mathi, which resisted: it took royal letters patent in 1767 to make them a community of their own.
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chiesa dei Santi Martino e Rosa 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The Dominicans' church on the Monticano, in Conegliano: an unfinished brick façade and an Adoration of the Shepherds. chiesa dei Santi Rocco e Domenico 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The church of San Rocco in Conegliano, an ex-voto for the plague of 1630: twentieth-century façade, a De Min ceiling. duomo di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km Conegliano's cathedral, hidden behind the frescoed Scuola dei Battuti: inside is Cima's altarpiece of 1492. Museo civico di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km The museum in the tower of Conegliano's castle: picture gallery, detached frescoes and the panoramic terrace on top. chiesa di San Dionigi 📍 Conegliano · 17 km The parish church of Collalbrigo, a hamlet of Conegliano, rebuilt after the 1873 earthquake and consecrated in 1894. Chiesa di San Giorgio 📍 Pordenone · 21 km Pordenone church with a bell tower shaped like a Doric column and the statue of Saint George on top.