Oglianico

Oglianico's name has two explanations. One traces it to a Uliaco, later Ulianico, probably Celtic; the other to the Roman family name Ulius, with a fundus ullianus sliding into Ulianicus. The village stood on a border crossing and the wars never stopped: to shelter people, harvests and livestock the villagers raised one of the most important ricetti in the Canavese.

Closing it was a three-sided gate tower, open toward the inside, so well kept that Alfredo D'Andrade copied it for the Borgo Medioevale del Valentino in Turin in 1884. Inside the walls the community made its own rules: the statutes date from 1352, confirmed twenty years later by Ibleto di Challant, captain general of Piedmont.