Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Pessinetto, a municipality of 607 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
Pessinetto lies in the Lanzo Valleys, on the left bank of the Stura. On the summit of Monte Bastia stands the sanctuary of Sant'Ignazio: work began in 1629 to record miracles ascribed to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and the first stone is said to have been laid by princess Margherita of Savoy. Behind it rises Punta Serena, 1163 metres, with paths climbing from Chiaves and Tortore.
The parish church of San Giovanni Battista was built after a seventeenth century flood that carried away the earlier church and much of the village. From the opposite slope the sanctuary can be seen whole, the church and the long building alongside it on the crest.
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.