Patron saint festival In 295 days
Saint Donatus, patron of the land of the Col del Lys Natural Park
📅 Every year, on 7 August
Val della Torre celebrates Saint Donatus on 7 August.
Val della Torre is a scattered comune: the hamlets line up along the Casternone stream, and the seat is not one single village. At Brione, in the thirteenth century, the monastery of Santa Maria della Spina was founded, a Cistercian house for women aimed above all at the aristocracy and middle class of Turin. The monastery was suppressed at the start of the seventeenth century, but the church is still there.
Higher up stood a castle guarding the way to the Lunella and Portia passes: the French destroyed it during the War of the Spanish Succession, and the little that is left can be seen near the Castello hamlet. At the mouth of the valley, by the Caselette pools, remains of a Bronze Age village have come to light.
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Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 2.9 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 4.1 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Chiesa di Santa Maria al Carrobiolo 📍 Monza · 4.8 km Church of Santa Maria al Carrobiolo in Monza, with works by Peterzano and Moncalvo, vault frescoed 1707-1709. Chiesa di San Pietro Martire 📍 Monza · 4.8 km San Pietro Martire in Monza, 14th-century church for the Dominican killed in 1252, with a 15th-century cloister. Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 5.1 km Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Duomo di Monza 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Monza Cathedral, founded by Queen Theodelinda around 595, home of the Iron Crown.