Carignano lies some twenty kilometres south of Turin, on the left bank of the Po, and is one of the Piedmontese towns most tied to the river. The stretch between the two bridges was already crossed in the Neolithic: from the Garetìn, an islet downstream of the Carmagnola bridge, come the finds of a ford used when green stone axes travelled from Brittany to Hungary.
The monument that counts is the cathedral of Saints John the Baptist and Remigius, designed by Benedetto Alfieri, the court architect, and consecrated in 1764: a single fan-shaped nave, late baroque and theatrical. In the late nineteenth century this was a one company town grown around the Bona wool mill, and the mill's failure carried the economy away with it.
duomo di Carignano · santuario del Valinotto · Casaforte della Gorra
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Next up: Feast of Saint Remigius, Sunday 26 September
Nearest airport: Torino Caselle, 33 km away
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📅 Every year, on the last Sunday of September
On the last Sunday of September Carignano celebrates Saint Remigius, co-patron of Benedetto Alfieri's cathedral, the one with the convex façade.
duomo di Carignano Benedetto Alfieri's concave front: step inside and you see every altar at once. 
santuario del Valinotto Vittone's pierced dome among the fields, given to the farmhands by a banker. 
Casaforte della Gorra A fortified house with its ditch and an attached chapel, out in the Carignano countryside. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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