On 20 February 1226, outside the church, with the men of San Giorio gathered in council, Count Thomas I of Savoy announced the founding of a new town on the mollare; until then the settlement had probably been scattered and the church stood on its own. Scattered on the mountain it has remained: twenty-seven hamlets, nine lived in all year, up towards Punta Cristalliera.
The old core gathers around the castle, raised in the thirteenth century on one such mollare: the French general Catinat destroyed it in 1691, the restoration of the nineteen-seventies put it back up. Facing the parish church, which kept its Romanesque bell tower when it was rebuilt, the Conte chapel holds Franco-Piedmontese frescoes dated 1328.
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📅 Every year, on the Sunday closest to 23 April
San Giorio di Susa, a municipality of 1,040 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron Saint George with the historical-legendary re-enactment of the «suppression of the feudal lord» on the Sunday closest to 23 April.
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Outside San Giorio di Susa, but an easy day trip away.
