Patron saint festival In 273 days
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, patron of the land of the Ballo delle Masche
📅 Every year, on 16 July
Caprie celebrates Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 16 July.
Until December 1936 the place was called Chiavrie. The fascist regime italianised the name, finding it too close to the Piedmontese form — and in Piedmontese it is still Ciàvrie.
The commune lies in the lower Val di Susa, its centre on the valley floor and the hamlets of Celle, Campambiardo and Peroldrado halfway up the left-hand slope. The left-bank variant of the via Francigena passes through, on the Mont Cenis and Montgenèvre branches. At Celle, where the Romanesque parish church keeps an old crypt, legend has it that the hermit saint Giovanni Vincenzo lived, the founder of the Sacra di San Michele.
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Prato della Valle 📍 Padua · 15 km At 90,000 square meters, this monumental elliptical square is one of Europe's largest, ringed by 78 stone statues. basilica di Sant'Antonio di Padova 📍 Padua · 16 km Padua made him a saint in under a year, and his little church is still inside the basilica. Orto botanico di Padova 📍 Padua · 15 km It was made against fraud: to tell the genuine medicinal plants from the fakes. Villa Giusti 📍 Padua · 14 km Villa Giusti, Padua, where the armistice ending the First World War was signed on 3 November 1918. basilica di Santa Giustina 📍 Padua · 15 km The eight-domed abbey on the Prato della Valle: the tomb of Saint Luke and the Veronese on the altar. chiesa di Santa Croce 📍 Padua · 15 km Padua's only rococo church, designed by a Somascan father.