Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary
📅 Every year, on 2 October
On 2 October Druento celebrates its patron Our Lady of the Rosary; for several days the feast fills Piazza Oropa with a small funfair.
The name tells you about the soil: Druent, the form that lasted until the nineteen-thirties, is the superlative of the Piedmontese adjective dru and means most fertile. It appears for the first time in 1196.
The village, though, was born from a precise deed: on 12 February 1263 several local lords undertook to build at their own expense a borgo beyond the Ceronda, as a refuge should communications with Turin be cut. The Aynardi raised the castle on the hill and, beside it, the first church; as their emblem they chose a sage plant, to say that here you were safe and on the most fertile ground.
Chiesa di Santa Maria della Stella · Castello dei Laghi · La Bizzarrìa and 1 more
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📅 Every year, on 2 October
On 2 October Druento celebrates its patron Our Lady of the Rosary; for several days the feast fills Piazza Oropa with a small funfair.
Chiesa di Santa Maria della Stella The Druento church holding a Madonna by Carlo Giuseppe Plura.
Castello dei Laghi At the centre of three artificial lakes, a make-believe castle of 1860 on a Y plan
La Bizzarrìa A triangular hunting lodge of 1860, restored by Gabetti and Isola by keeping the ruin
chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo Four churches in five hundred years: this one dates from 1703, finished after the siege of Turin Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Druento, but an easy day trip away.