Patron saint festival In 251 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Cintano, a municipality of 261 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
Cintano lies in the middle of the Valle Sacra, in the Canavese, on a south-facing slope crossed end to end by the Piova, which rises on the southern flanks of the Punta di Verzel. The territory runs from south to north and takes in the hamlet of the Santuario di Piova and some upland settlements near Castelnuovo Nigra; the village was founded around 1300.
In 1927 the municipality left the province of Turin for that of Aosta, a year later it was absorbed into Castelnuovo Nigra, in 1945 it returned to Turin and only in 1947 regained its independence. In 2020 the council revoked the honorary citizenship given to Benito Mussolini and conferred it on Liliana Segre and Sami Modiano, survivors of the deportation, unveiling a monument to the town's honorary citizenships. A monument and a statue are dedicated to the basilisk, the winged serpent with a rooster's head and feet whose gaze kills.
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Bellagio and mid-lake Como 📍 Bellagio · 8.0 km Positioned at the fork of Lake Como, Bellagio combines Celtic and Roman history with a spectacular alpine landscape. Villa Melzi d'Eril 📍 Bellagio · 10 km The lakeside garden of Napoleon's duke, with azaleas and a Moorish kiosk. Villa Serbelloni Rockefeller 📍 Bellagio · 12 km The villa on the point of Bellagio, now a Rockefeller Foundation study centre. basilica di San Giacomo 📍 Bellagio · 12 km Bellagio's Romanesque basilica, baroque for two centuries then restored. duomo di Como 📍 Como · 13 km Como Cathedral, founded in 1396, featuring Late Gothic architecture, 16th-century paintings, and fine tapestries. Tempio Voltiano 📍 Como · 13 km A Neoclassical lakeside museum in Como dedicated to Alessandro Volta's scientific discoveries.