Patron saint festival In 228 days
Feast of San Restituto
📅 Every year, on the last Sunday of May
On the last Sunday of May Sauze di Cesana, a municipality of 219 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron San Restituto.
Sauze di Cesana, Lo Grand Sause in Occitan, ceased for a time to be a comune: in 1928 it was merged into Cesana Torinese, six years later it passed to the new comune of Sestriere, and regained its autonomy only in 1947, at the end of fascism. On 14 July 1962 a fire devastated the village. Its arms show an uprooted willow on silver.
The whole Valle Argentera lies in its territory. There, on 10 September 1944, an American B-17 nicknamed Miss Charlotte crashed into the Gran Mioul. Its squadron flew alone, at night and low, dropping weapons, medicine and food to partisans; that time it was bound for the Valle Pesio. All nine crewmen died. The parish church is dedicated to San Restituto.
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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.