Patron saint festival In 270 days
Feast of Saint Margaret
📅 Every year, on 13 July
On 13 July Tavagnasco, a municipality of 813 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patroness Saint Margaret (Santa Margherita).
Tavagnasco was born in the Middle Ages inside the Castellata of Settimo Vittone, always a rebellious place at odds with the nobles of the nearby castles over its autonomy. A Console and the Credenzieri ran it, sworn in by their outgoing predecessors; the Podestà, judge in civil and criminal cases, was appointed by the lords of Settimo Vittone, Montestrutto, Quincinetto and Ivrea.
In 1512 Giovanni Giacomo Enrico di Settimo tried by force to keep those appointments to himself; the villagers held out and, backed by the Savoys, won. The chapel of Santa Maria Maddalena, on a sloping meadow, has walls of rough render, a stone-slab porch and a bell turret on the ridge.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Tavagnasco, but an easy day trip away.
Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 5.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times. Riserva naturale stagno di Holay 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A hectare and a half of wetland at 750 metres, with relict species rare in the Aosta Valley. castello di Pont-Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km The old castle, with its rare hexagonal keep, half an hour up through the vineyards above the town.