Patron saint festival In 268 days
Feast of Saint Pius
📅 Every year, on 11 July
On 11 July Valgioie, a municipality of 948 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron Saint Pius (San Pio).
Valgioie lies in the Val Sangone, on the slope that climbs to the Colle del Termine, on the Dora Riparia and Sangone watershed; Monte Ciabergia stands over the Sacra di San Michele from the south-east. Between 1928 and 1957 the comune did not exist: it was absorbed into Giaveno, and on becoming a comune again it took back its old arms.
They are canting arms: the name would be linked to the magpie, a bird common here and called gaia or gioia. The arms appear in the parish archive as early as the fourteenth century. The parish church of San Giovanni Battista has a pale curved front and a bare stone bell tower.
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chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo 📍 Luni · 400 m Rothari levelled the Byzantine chapel; in the eleventh century Nicola rebuilt on its highest point. santuario di Nostra Signora del Mirteto 📍 Luni · 1.1 km In 1537 a painting wept tears of blood: from that grew the sanctuary above Ortonovo. chiesa di San Lorenzo 📍 Luni · 1.3 km Built between 1621 and 1645 on the ruins of a castle, a perpetual abbey since 1714. chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km Three naves on eight columns of Carrara marble, under a portal carved in 1671. Palazzo Amati Ingolotti Cornelio 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km A marchese rebuilt it for his duchess wife; its sixteenth-century cellars now pour the local wine. Luna 📍 Luni · 2.9 km Rome's marble port: forum, theatre and an amphitheatre for 7,000, at the mouth of the Magra.