Vische

Province: Turin · Region: Piedmont · Population: 1,314 · Postal code: 10030

Between 1765 and 1768 porcelain was made at Vische. The company was set up on Count Ludovico Birago's estate; he put in the premises and the secret glaze formula, and Carlo Emanuele III granted it the porcelain monopoly in the Kingdom of Sardinia for twenty years. The staff: a director, a painter, two modellers, two turners, twelve workmen. It closed in debt.

Out came undecorated figurines, among them a series of children at their trades designed by Étienne Maurice Falconet; the manufactory's mark was a W under a trefoil. The village's parish church of San Bartolomeo, medieval and reworked in the sixteenth century, is reached by a stair, with a columned peristyle before the door.

🎉 Festivals and feasts in Vische 1

Patron saint festival In 312 days

Feast of San Bartolomeo

📅 Every year, on 24 August

On 24 August Vische, a municipality of 1,314 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin, celebrates its patron San Bartolomeo.

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