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Feast of the Madonna del Rocciamelone
📅 Every year, on 5 August
On 5 August Mompantero, a municipality of 651 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin, celebrates its patroness the Madonna del Rocciamelone.
Mompantero is one of the largest comuni in the Val di Susa, at the foot of the Rocciamelone. Its hamlets follow the Cenischia torrent below, while more than thirty settlements cling to the mountainside, the Tour among them, with their chapels and votive pillars. A stretch of Roman aqueduct survives at Urbiano, and at Trinità the ruins of the fortified house that is the comune's emblem.
The summit of the Rocciamelone has drawn pilgrims since 1358, when Bonifacio Rotario d'Asti carried a bronze triptych of the Virgin and Child there to fulfil a vow; it is now in the diocesan museum at Susa. In 1899 the alpini hauled up the statue of the Madonna delle Nevi.
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Marinelli Bell Foundry 📍 Agnone · 10 km One of Italy's oldest family businesses, this pontifical foundry has been casting bells since 1040. chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Agnone · 10 km An emerald-green dome, a Gothic portal and a book museum inside the friary. chiesa di San Marco Evangelista 📍 Agnone · 9.8 km A Venetian winged lion carved over the portal of Agnone's mother church. chiesa di Sant'Emidio Vescovo e Martire 📍 Agnone · 10 km The Gothic portal and rose window of the church Agnone calls its duomo. Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 17 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carovilli · 18 km The marble font carved with the barons' portraits, in Carovilli's parish church.