Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Sauze d'Oulx, a municipality of 1,111 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
The name comes from the Latin salix, willow, and in 1223 the village was still written Salice. Its arms hold two masters together: the dolphin for the Dauphiné, the lily for France. Neither is idle, since Sauze had to buy its freedom from royal power, first from the Dauphin, then from the king of France.
The hamlet of Jouvenceaux carries an older name: in the days of the mountain king Cottius the Sauvincatii lived there. Its chapel of Sant'Antonio Abate puts outside what is usually kept within — the wall under the stone-slab roof is covered with fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, given to the school of the Serra brothers.
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Outside Sauze d'Oulx, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 12 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. basilica cattedrale di San Martino 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's cathedral, rebuilt by Tullio Lombardo in the sixteenth century, with Juvarra's bell tower. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 14 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 16 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 16 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt.