Patron saint festival In 250 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Verrua Savoia, a municipality of 1,459 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
Verrua Savoia is the easternmost comune of its province and touches three others, Asti, Vercelli and Alessandria; the Po divides it from Vercelli. Verrua comes from the Latin verruca, a knoll; the rest of the name is late, added in 1862 by Victor Emmanuel II to record what the fortress had meant to Piedmont.
In 1387 Theodore II of Monferrato besieged the fortress and after two months had to give up. From it came the saying: when the pig takes the grape, the marquis of Monferrato takes Verrua. Pig and grapes come from the village seal and are still in the coat of arms; the fortress was wrecked in a later siege and never rebuilt.
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chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Norcia · 8.6 km Hilltop church of Campi Vecchio, destroyed in the 26 October 2016 earthquake; today a place of memory. chiesa di San Salvatore 📍 Norcia · 8.7 km Historic Romanesque church near Norcia built over a Roman temple, largely destroyed in the 2016 earthquakes. chiesa di Sant'Andrea 📍 Norcia · 8.7 km Campi's fourteenth-century parish church, badly hit in 2016; its medieval treasures now rest in Spoleto. chiesa della Madonna Bianca 📍 Norcia · 11 km A 14th-century church near Norcia, famous for its marble relief of the Madonna Bianca by Francesco di Simone Ferrucci. Sito archeologico di Forca d'Ancarano 📍 Norcia · 13 km An ancient Italic mountain sanctuary near Norcia, used from the 6th century BC as a sacred crossroads. basilica di San Benedetto 📍 Norcia · 15 km Built over the birthplace of Saints Benedict and Scholastica, this historic Norcia basilica reopened in October 2025.