Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel
📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Porte celebrates Saint Michael the Archangel; the village, in the Chisone valley, offers a wide viewpoint over the valley.
Porte lies where the Val Chisone opens onto the plain; in Piedmontese the village is Pòrte, in Occitan Las Pòrtas. At Malanaggio a mill has long ground talc and graphite, and the company that ran it carried the whole valley in its name: Talco e Grafite Val Chisone.
Above the road, at the top of a flight of steps, stands the parish church of San Michele Arcangelo. Pilasters and pale panels divide the yellow front; a painted lunette in the pediment shows the archangel, and the bell tower beside it carries the clock face below an open belfry closed by a balustrade.
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chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo 📍 Luni · 400 m Rothari levelled the Byzantine chapel; in the eleventh century Nicola rebuilt on its highest point. santuario di Nostra Signora del Mirteto 📍 Luni · 1.1 km In 1537 a painting wept tears of blood: from that grew the sanctuary above Ortonovo. chiesa di San Lorenzo 📍 Luni · 1.3 km Built between 1621 and 1645 on the ruins of a castle, a perpetual abbey since 1714. chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km Three naves on eight columns of Carrara marble, under a portal carved in 1671. Palazzo Amati Ingolotti Cornelio 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km A marchese rebuilt it for his duchess wife; its sixteenth-century cellars now pour the local wine. Luna 📍 Luni · 2.9 km Rome's marble port: forum, theatre and an amphitheatre for 7,000, at the mouth of the Magra.