Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Edward the Confessor
📅 Every year, on 13 October
On 13 October Sestriere celebrates its patron Saint Edward the Confessor; the municipal territory includes the Parco Naturale della Val Troncea.
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The name comes from Petra Sextreria, the sixth stone measuring the miles from Turin. Sestriere sits on the pass between Val Chisone and Val di Susa, under Monte Fraiteve and Monte Sises, and with its town hall at 2035 metres it is Italy's highest comune.
The comune was created by royal decree in 1934, joining the old comune of Champlas du Col, now a hamlet, with the Borgata detached from Pragelato. Four years earlier Giovanni Agnelli had bought the land at forty cents a square metre and commissioned the two tower hotels from Vittorio Bonadè Bottino. Its arms carry a pair of skis between a black band and a green one.
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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.