Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Maurice
📅 Every year, on 22 September
On 22 September Villar Pellice celebrates Saint Maurice; the village also hosts the Crumiere Felt Mill Ecomuseum.
The name Villar recurs in many Piedmontese municipalities and probably goes back to the Middle Ages, when Occitan was spoken here. Villar Pellice lies in the Val Pellice and, according to nineteenth-century information, the municipality was said to be mostly Waldensian: the temple stands at the top of a stone stairway between two walls, pale-fronted, its bell tower ending in a spire.
An ecomuseum opened in 2006 in the old Crumière felt mill. On 29 May 2008 forty thousand cubic metres of mud and debris broke away from the Rio Cassarot basin and swept through the hamlet of Garin: two houses destroyed, many others damaged, roads flooded, cars overturned, four dead.
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monastero di Astino 📍 Bergamo · 6.7 km The Vallombrosan monastery in a farmed valley at the gates of Bergamo. Città Alta and the Venetian Walls 📍 Bergamo · 8.1 km A 6,200-meter wall built by Venice in the 16th century, this UNESCO World Heritage site encloses Bergamo Alta. basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Bergamo · 8.1 km The church without a façade in Bergamo's upper town: Campione's lions and the intarsias designed by Lotto. Museo civico di scienze naturali Enrico Caffi 📍 Bergamo · 8.0 km The Città Alta museum with one of the world's oldest flying reptiles, found in a nearby valley. Casa natale di Gaetano Donizetti 📍 Bergamo · 7.8 km The house-museum where Gaetano Donizetti was born in 1797, with the family's basement rooms. chiesa di Santa Grata in Columnellis 📍 Bergamo · 7.7 km Church of Bergamo's oldest Benedictine monastery, on via Arena, with the remains of the ancient portico.