Patron saint festival In 50 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Pratiglione celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas; the municipal territory is dominated by Monte Soglio.
Pratiglione — Prajon in Piedmontese — lies in the Canavese, north of Turin. The old name Prata Leonis appears in the 1014 deed by which the emperor Henry II gave the village to the Benedictine abbey of Fruttuaria. The arms put that name into a picture: a golden lion on a blue field, its hind paw on natural ground.
The land climbs to Monte Soglio, whose summit is where four municipalities meet: Pratiglione, Corio, Forno Canavese and Sparone. In the mid-nineteenth century the village was left for the United States by the maternal great-great-grandfather of Tom Morello, the guitarist of Rage Against the Machine.
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Chiesa di San Pietro 📍 Cento · 8.9 km One of Cento's oldest churches, thirteenth-century, with a five-bay portico: three Guercino altarpieces once hung here. Basilica di San Biagio 📍 Cento · 9.1 km Cento's Baroque cathedral church, reopened in 2018 after the earthquake: an elliptical dome and two Guercino paintings. Rocca di Cento 📍 Cento · 9.4 km The fortress the Bolognese built in Cento from 1378: a keep, three corner towers and the cells used until 1969. Centro di documentazione del mondo agricolo ferrarese 📍 Ferrara · 16 km Museum of Ferrara's farming world at San Bartolomeo in Bosco, opened 1981, over ten thousand objects. Este Castle 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Built in 1385 around four imposing towers, this moated medieval fortress is the Renaissance centerpiece of Ferrara. cattedrale di San Giorgio 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Romanesque below, Gothic above: Nicholaus's façade, the merchants' loggias and the Months in the museum.