Patron saint festival In 278 days
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene
📅 Every year, on 22 July
On 22 July Mercenasco, a municipality of 1,267 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patroness Saint Mary Magdalene (santa Maria Maddalena).
The name may come from the Celtic mark zen mag, “lower border village”, or from a Latin Marcinius; the first document to name it cites one Guillelmus Bogius de Martianasco. A Roman stele of the first century turned up before the parish church. The Guelph and Ghibelline wars destroyed the castle in the fourteenth century; in 1349 the marquis of Monferrato had it rebuilt.
Little of that fortress is left: in the nineteenth century the Compans de Brichanteau turned it into a manor with decorated fronts inside a park, still private. Villate, its hamlet, first appears in 1292; tradition has it founded by Aostans devoted to Sant'Orso and San Grato, the saint of its church.
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Near Mercenasco
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Mercenasco, but an easy day trip away.
Castellazzo 📍 Caluso · 3.5 km The ruins of the medieval fort on the morainic hill that overlooks Caluso. chiesa di San Calocero 📍 Caluso · 3.5 km The ruins of a Romanesque church of 1177, the castle's own, with Roman bricks in its walls. Palazzo Valperga di Masino 📍 Caluso · 3.6 km The Valperga palace, now town hall and regional wine cellar, with a park turned botanical garden. Villa Griselli 📍 Caluso · 3.8 km An Art Nouveau villa of 1926, built at Caluso by a doctor home from Argentina. castello di Malgrà 📍 Rivarolo Canavese · 9.7 km A fourteenth-century castle on the plain, remade by Alfredo d'Andrade: the railway ran beneath it. chiesa parrocchiale di San Michele 📍 Rivarolo Canavese · 10 km An octagonal church of 1759, a masterpiece by Vittone, with a statue fished from the Orco.