Patron saint festival In 256 days
Feast of Saint Peter
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Usseaux, a municipality of 185 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron Saint Peter.
Usseaux stands in the upper Val Chisone, in the Cottian Alps, and carries its name written on its arms: two silver swords crossed, points upward, and above them the word Uxellum in gold capitals. The name is traced to the Celtic root uxellos, "high", which is what the place is: the main village sits halfway up the slope above the valley road, and the hamlets share the two sides. Rock carvings have been found at Rocca del Colle.
Besides the main village the comune has four hamlets, each with two names, the local one and the Italianised one: Balboutet and Finale, Fraisse and Frassineto, Laux and Lauso, Pourrieres and Purrieri. The patouà, alpine Occitan, is still spoken in them. At Usseaux the communal oven, washhouse and mill of the eighteenth century still stand; at Pourrieres a dam on the Chisone has made a lake bearing the hamlet's name since 1950.
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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.