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PIEMONTE – Vaie 202 Sagra del CanestrelloVaie 202 Sagra del Canestrello is a festival with concerts and exhibitions celebrating the cannestrello, a typical cookie of the province of Turin. The town streets are lined with stalls selling products from the Valle di Susa. The canestrello [...]
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TURIN – Talisman Tarot – The FoolThe Fool is numbered 0 – the number of unlimited potential – and so does not have a specific place in the sequence of the Tarot cards. The Fool can be placed either at the beginning of the Major Arcana or at the end. The Major Arcana is often [...]
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TURIN – Talisman Tarot – The EmpressThe Empress is a beautiful, full-figured woman with blonde hair and a peaceful aura about her. On her head, she wears a crown of twelve stars, showing her connection with the mystical realm and the cycles of the natural world (the twelve month [...]
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CASELETTE – The Sanctuario of Sant’ AbacoThe most important part if the festivities is solemn liturgical celebrations which take place on three Sundays after Epiphany Day: on the 19th of January, one Sunday before and after. services take place with a large congestion of believers an [...]
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CASELETTE – The Sanctuario of Sant’ AbacoFrom Epiphany Day (6th of January) till 19th of January a great religious festivity takes place in Sant'Abaco on the hills of Musiné in Caselette. First in the parish of St. George during the liturgy a priest blesses the charities – the breads [...]
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AVIGLIANA – Sacra di San MicheleThe Sacra of San Michele, an imposing religious architectural complex of Romanesque times, was founded around 1000 A.D. is the symbolic monument of the Piemonte (Piedmont) Region since 1994. Founded as a Benedictine abbey, it is one of the old [...]
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AVIGLIANA – Sacra di San MicheleThe Sacra di San Michele, sometimes known as Saint Michael's Abbey, is a religious complex on Mount Pirchiriano, situated on the south side of the Val di Susa in the territory of the municipality of Sant'Ambrogio di Torino, in the Metropolitan [...]
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MESENZANA – Ducato di Mesenzana – Coat of ArmsMesenzana rises on the Margorabbia valley, a few kilometers from Luino. It's a small village with a medieval centre in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) northwest of Milan and about 15 k [...]
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MESENZANA – Ducato di Mesenzana – VillageMesenzana rises on the Margorabbia valley, a few kilometers from Luino. The origin of the name is not clear: it was decided to associate it with the name "Maxentius", but it is more likely a reference to "massa", that is a farm. The town was a [...]
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TURIN – Talisman Tarot – The PopessTarot cards, then known as tarocchi, first appeared in Ferrara and Milan in northern Italy, with a Fool and 21 trumps (then called trionfi being added to the standard Italian pack of four suits: batons, coins, cups and swords. Scholarship has [...]
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