Patron saint festival In 326 days
Feast of Sant'Ilario
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of September
On the first Sunday of September San Ponso, a municipality of 279 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron Sant'Ilario.
San Ponso is a small comune in the upper Canavese; its oldest building is not a house but a baptistery, beside the Baroque parish church that replaced a Romanesque pieve. The site was a burial ground already in Roman times: tombstones of the first and second centuries AD have turned up. Excavations in 1977 found an immersion font of the fifth century beneath it, replaced between the eighth and ninth centuries; on those walls, around the year one thousand, today's building was raised.
The plan is octagonal, with sides of unequal length and eight alternating apses, four rectangular and four semicircular; the walls are over a metre thick and carry a lantern with a hemispherical dome roofed in stone slabs, as at the baptistery of Lomello. The door lintel is a reused Roman block, roughly carved with a woman lying on her back and a two-line inscription. The tall bell tower on the dome was added in 1585.
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chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.