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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chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.