Cuorgnè stands at the mouth of the Orco valley, at 414 metres, in the morainic amphitheatre between the granite ridge of Belmonte, Monte Soglio and the Quinzeina: islands of red granite break through the alluvial ground below the hills of Costosa and Santa Lucia.
Not far away stood Canava, from the Celtic Canaba, the settlement that gave the Canavese its name: it vanished around 1030, swept away by a flood of the Orco, and in its place grew Cuorgnè, Castellamonte and Valperga. The town began in a strategic spot and changed trade three times: first a winter base for shepherds, then a military post, finally a place of exchange between the produce of the plain and that of the alpine valleys.
Museo archeologico del Canavese · chiesa di San Dalmazzo Martire · Castello di Salto and 2 more
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Next up: Saint Aloysius and the Tournament of King Arduin, Monday 21 June
Nearest airport: Torino Caselle, 21 km away
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📅 Every year, on 21 June
Cuorgnè's patron is Saint Aloysius, on 21 June; in May, instead, the town goes back to 1002 with the Tournament at the Court of King Arduin.
Museo archeologico del Canavese Nine rooms inside a former mill: the Canavese from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. 
chiesa di San Dalmazzo Martire The parish church born after the 1804 collapse, with an Ionic porch added in 1820. 
Castello di Salto Ruins on a rise above Salto: the stone tower and the chapel of San Pietro. chiesa della Confraternita di San Giovanni decollato The church of the confraternity that could free one condemned man every year. Torre dell'Orologio A fourteenth-century square tower, sold to the town by the Valperga in 1400. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Cuorgnè, but an easy day trip away.
