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Saint John the Baptist, patron of the land of the ricetto tower
📅 Every year, on 24 June
Salassa celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 24 June, in the church dedicated to him.
Two things in Salassa are worth a proper look, and both go back to the thirteenth century: the ricetto, the walled enclosure where the community sheltered its stores and its people, and the tower-gate that led into it. The tower stands twenty-four metres high, cylindrical on a rectangular base, and was raised with rounded pebbles from the river; nothing else like it survives in the Canavese.
The parish church of San Giovanni Battista holds two ideas of architecture together: late Baroque elements sit beside solutions taken from the neoclassical vocabulary.
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 200 m Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 2.8 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. viadotto Torrente Sori 📍 Sori · 5.5 km 105 metres above the valley: the Dywidag cantilever system made its Italian debut here in 1966. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Bargagli · 6.0 km Traso's parish church, dedicated to Milan's bishop in Genoese country. chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 5.9 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 6.1 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down