Patron saint festival In 279 days
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene
📅 Every year, on 22 July
On 22 July Perrero, a municipality of 723 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patroness Saint Mary Magdalene (santa Maria Maddalena).
The name may come from the medieval word pererium, a stony place, and stone is not lacking in the middle Germanasca valley. Today's comune dates from 1928, when eight neighbouring municipalities, Perrero, Chiabrano, Traverse, Maniglia, San Martino di Perrero, Riclaretto, Faetto and Bovile, were joined into one with Perrero as its seat. Above the Faetto glen the land reaches the Cialancia basin, now a nature park.
The village has the church of Santa Maria Maddalena and the Waldensian temple, whose pale front faces a climbing street: two columns carry a small pediment over the door, and higher up the lit lampstand among the stars, the Waldensian emblem, is painted on the wall.
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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.