Ribordone fills a side valley off the Orco, inside the Gran Paradiso national park, and is a scattered municipality: the town hall sits in the hamlet of Gabbadone. This is Franco-Provençal country, where the village is called Riburda. Higher up, in a basin invisible from the valley floor, stands the sanctuary of Our Lady of Loreto: the Piedmontese name of the place, Prascondù, means hidden meadow, and comes from just that.
Tradition dates it to 1619, when Giovannino Berardi, a local boy who had lost his speech the year before, saw the Virgin: to speak again he had to make the pilgrimage to Loreto and fulfil a vow his father had taken. He went, and got his voice back near a votive pillar on the way home. The villagers began a chapel where the apparition had happened; an avalanche swept it away, and the sanctuary was rebuilt on safer ground and consecrated in 1659.
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📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Ribordone, one of Piedmont's smallest municipalities with around 70 inhabitants, celebrates Saint Michael the Archangel; its territory includes the Prascondù sanctuary.
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Outside Ribordone, but an easy day trip away.
