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Feast of the Nativity of Mary
📅 Every year, on 8 September
On 8 September Salza di Pinerolo, a municipality of 78 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Salza di Pinerolo fills a side valley of the Valle Germanasca and has no real village: only hamlets on the slopes, with the seat at Didiero. Until 1863 it was called simply Salza. The name comes from Latin salicia or salicetum, a place thick with willows; another reading traces it to a salt spring, or to ground where salt was given to livestock.
The arms carry two crossed pickaxes and, below, a snow-capped mountain with six firs, three on each side. In the mid-nineteenth century quarries of white, grey and bardiglio marble opened on the mountains around, and several talc mines ran near Fontane; on the north side of the valley some two hundred hectares of silver fir still hold on, a species very limited in the Western Alps. The borders moved about: Fontane came from Prali in 1892, in 1928 the commune went into Massello, and in 1947 it was autonomous again.
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Porta Mosa 📍 Cremona · 7.3 km The last gate left in Cremona, medieval in origin, with a sixteenth-century archway and the bastion of San Giorgio. Chiesa di San Sisto 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Renaissance church in Piacenza that kept Raphael's Sistine Madonna, with the tomb of Margaret of Austria. Palazzo Farnese 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Great Farnese palace of Piacenza designed by Vignola, home to the civic museums with the Etruscan liver and Botticelli. Chiesa delle Benedettine 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Deconsecrated Baroque church of 1681 built by the Farnese, with a double church for nuns and faithful and a great dome. Basilica di San Savino 📍 Piacenza · 21 km Romanesque basilica in Piacenza with a Baroque façade of 1721, a crypt with zodiac mosaics and Saint Sabinus's relics. Violin Museum 📍 Cremona · 24 km Housed in Cremona's Palazzo dell'Arte, this museum displays masterpieces by Stradivari and the city's greatest luthiers.