Patron saint festival In 312 days
Feast of San Luigi IX, King of France
📅 Every year, on 25 August
On 25 August Fenestrelle, a municipality of 553 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin, celebrates its patron San Luigi IX, King of France.
Fenestrelle sits halfway up the Val Chisone, in a basin under Monte Orsiera and Monte Albergian, and was always the pass between upper and lower valley. Its name is traced back to Finis Terrae Cotii, the edge of the land of Cozio, king of the tribes allied to Rome. It long belonged to the Dauphiné, and passed to Savoy with the whole valley only under the treaty of Utrecht of 1713.
The fortress climbing the slope has three forts and seven redoubts, each able to hold out alone, linked by roads, outside stairs and a covered stairway of 3,996 steps. From the late eighteenth century to fascism it was also a state prison.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Fenestrelle, but an easy day trip away.
Castellazzo 📍 Caluso · 3.5 km The ruins of the medieval fort on the morainic hill that overlooks Caluso. chiesa di San Calocero 📍 Caluso · 3.5 km The ruins of a Romanesque church of 1177, the castle's own, with Roman bricks in its walls. Palazzo Valperga di Masino 📍 Caluso · 3.6 km The Valperga palace, now town hall and regional wine cellar, with a park turned botanical garden. Villa Griselli 📍 Caluso · 3.8 km An Art Nouveau villa of 1926, built at Caluso by a doctor home from Argentina. castello di Malgrà 📍 Rivarolo Canavese · 9.7 km A fourteenth-century castle on the plain, remade by Alfredo d'Andrade: the railway ran beneath it. chiesa parrocchiale di San Michele 📍 Rivarolo Canavese · 10 km An octagonal church of 1759, a masterpiece by Vittone, with a statue fished from the Orco.