Patron saint festival In 279 days
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene
📅 Every year, on 22 July
On 22 July Groscavallo, a municipality of 191 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patroness Saint Mary Magdalene (santa Maria Maddalena).
Groscavallo lies at the head of the Val Grande di Lanzo and is the highest municipality in the valley, with most of its hamlets on the left bank of the Stura, under the Levanne massif. The town hall stands not in the village of that name but in the hamlet of Pialpetta. The name may be Celtic, from graus and vald, green valley.
It appears in a deed of 1330, by which the Gontario brothers received in fief from count Aimone of Savoy a fortified house at Forno di Groscavallo and a twelfth of the land up to the mountain tops. Iron, silver, gold and copper were mined here for centuries, and Groscavallo miners were known throughout the Savoy duchy; a furnace on the valley floor melted cast iron into shot for the army. The comune reached its present size in 1927, when Bonzo and Forno Alpi Graie were joined to it.
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Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 2.9 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 4.1 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Chiesa di Santa Maria al Carrobiolo 📍 Monza · 4.8 km Church of Santa Maria al Carrobiolo in Monza, with works by Peterzano and Moncalvo, vault frescoed 1707-1709. Chiesa di San Pietro Martire 📍 Monza · 4.8 km San Pietro Martire in Monza, 14th-century church for the Dominican killed in 1252, with a 15th-century cloister. Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 5.1 km Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Duomo di Monza 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Monza Cathedral, founded by Queen Theodelinda around 595, home of the Iron Crown.