In 1775 part of the Della Rovere castle was turned into a factory for majolica and porcelain, and under the direction of Vittorio Amedeo Gioanetti the porcelain of Vinovo made a name for itself. The castle has returned to the town council and since 2006 has housed the public library.
The town has 14,108 residents and appears in documents as early as 1040, under the name Vicus Novus, the new village. It became a comune in 1458, when duke Ludovico of Savoy granted it its statutes; until 1865 it also included Stupinigi, later passed to Nichelino.
The patron is Saint Bartholomew and the feast falls on 24 August. His church was born in 1451 as an enlargement of the Della Rovere private chapel and took the place of San Desiderio, who had been the village's first patron and whose church, standing alone in open country, was left to guard the image of the Madonna of Sorrows.
San Bartolomeo came close to disappearing: on 4 August 1630, during the war of Monferrato, French troops set fire to it, and it was rebuilt once the fighting was over. Another thing that has lasted a long time in Vinovo is the Giuseppe Verdi Philharmonic, the town band founded in 1847 and active ever since without a break.
castello Della Rovere · chiesa di San Bartolomeo Apostolo · Cappella di Santa Croce
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📅 Every year, on 24 August
On 24 August Vinovo celebrates Saint Bartholomew in the church dedicated to him, born in 1451 as an enlargement of the Della Rovere family's private chapel inside their castle.
castello Della Rovere A Renaissance palace of 1480-1517 with Pinturicchio-school grotesques: the porcelain of Vinovo was made here. 
chiesa di San Bartolomeo Apostolo A parish church born in 1451 from the Della Rovere chapel: twelfth-century reliefs and the Madonna del Rivolet 
Cappella di Santa Croce The church of the Batù, the flagellants: fifteenth-century, kept up by the Confraternity of Santa Croce from 1 Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Vinovo, but an easy day trip away.
