Patron saint festival In 2 days
Feast of San Benigno
📅 Every year, on the third Sunday of October
On the third Sunday of October Lauriano, a municipality of 1,493 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron San Benigno.
Lauriano appears as «Lavriana» in the edict Otto III issued from Rome in 999 to confirm wide lands to the bishop of Vercelli; later documents make it «Levranum», then «Labriano», differences put down to scribes writing from dictation. Its arms join the laurel, echoing the name, and a capital, for the Roman town of Industria that stood in these parts.
The parish has moved twice: from the Romitorio on the highest hill, a church of Saint Mary by 1113 beside castle ruins now nearly hidden by brambles, to a Sant'Eusebio on the flat gone by the sixteenth century, and at last down to the village, under the clock tower. The registers begin only in 1626, after floods of the Po and sackings.
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Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.