Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Maurice
📅 Every year, on 22 September
On 22 September San Maurizio Canavese celebrates the patron the municipality is named after; its territory also includes part of La Mandria Nature Park.
San Maurizio lies some twenty kilometres north of Turin, on the plain between the Stura and the Vauda. The name appears in documents in the first century after the year 1000, vicus de Sancto Mauritio, because the castle chapel was dedicated to the commander of the Theban Legion; before that the place had been called Lifiniasco.
The date that counts is 1335: marchioness Margherita of Savoy granted the community the land to found a new settlement, close to the old one but fortified. Activity moved there and the ancient core, with its castle, slowly disappeared; the pieve went on serving as parish church until 1813. The territory was once far larger: the Vauda became a comune of its own, San Francesco al Campo.
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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.