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.
ricetto di Candelo 📍 Candelo · 6.9 km Two hundred cells inside a pentagon of walls: one of the best preserved ricetti in Europe chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 7.1 km A Romanesque bell tower, a baroque front with a serliana, and a wall dated 1944 Villa Era 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 8.1 km An eighteenth-century farmstead turned into a show villa between 1884 and 1888 Castello di Castellengo 📍 Cossato · 13 km A tenth-century castle turned residence: the Frichignono arms and the Savoy siege that ended in 1409. Ecomuseo del Cossatese e della Baragge 📍 Cossato · 13 km A scattered museum of rural life, with the visitor centre for the Baragge reserve. Villa Ranzoni 📍 Cossato · 13 km The Ranzoni family's eighteenth-century villa, now the municipal library of Cossato.