Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi
📅 Every year, on 4 October
On 4 October San Francesco al Campo celebrates its patron and namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi, whose name became part of the village's own.
The town sits on the Vauda plateau north-west of Turin, and the name of the plateau comes from the Old German Wald, which meant forest. The northern part of its territory falls inside the Vauda nature reserve.
Here stands one of the most important velodromes in Italy, the Francone, built thanks to the bequest of an enthusiast and named after him. It opened in 1996 and has a 400 metre track with curves banked at thirty-two degrees; a federal cycling school is based there.
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Near San Francesco al Campo
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside San Francesco al Campo, but an easy day trip away.
ricetto di Candelo 📍 Candelo · 6.9 km Two hundred cells inside a pentagon of walls: one of the best preserved ricetti in Europe chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 7.1 km A Romanesque bell tower, a baroque front with a serliana, and a wall dated 1944 Villa Era 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 8.1 km An eighteenth-century farmstead turned into a show villa between 1884 and 1888 Castello di Castellengo 📍 Cossato · 13 km A tenth-century castle turned residence: the Frichignono arms and the Savoy siege that ended in 1409. Ecomuseo del Cossatese e della Baragge 📍 Cossato · 13 km A scattered museum of rural life, with the visitor centre for the Baragge reserve. Villa Ranzoni 📍 Cossato · 13 km The Ranzoni family's eighteenth-century villa, now the municipal library of Cossato.