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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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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.