Patron saint festival In 282 days
Feast of Saint James
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Ingria, a municipality of 49 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron Saint James (San Giacomo).
Ingria sits in the Val Soana, is one of the least populated comuni in Italy and scatters across twenty-one hamlets besides the main village, many now empty: stone houses, stone-slab roofs, and Franco-Provençal, the language in which the place is called L'Éngri. At the start of the twentieth century almost two thousand people lived here.
The men worked as magnin, coppersmiths, as they did throughout the Val Soana: in winter they went down to the Piedmontese and Lombard plains, to Liguria, and on into Switzerland and France. The coat of arms says exactly that. On a sky-coloured field a golden single-arched bridge spans water where two silver fish swim, and on it sits a copper cauldron; above, a black eagle.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Ingria, but an easy day trip away.
Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 300 m Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Parco GruBrìa 📍 Seregno · 800 m The farmland and woodland park between Seregno and northern Milan, along the Villoresi canal, created in 2019. Parco Lago Nord 📍 Paderno Dugnano · 5.2 km The park created from an old quarry in Paderno Dugnano, with two small lakes and a waterfall fed by the Villoresi canal. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Parco Borromeo 📍 Cesano Maderno · 5.3 km The park of Palazzo Arese Borromeo in Cesano Maderno: Italian garden, rose beds and the dromedary fountain. Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 5.4 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park.