Easy hikes and walks around Monte San Giorgio Natural Park

Just beyond the church of San Vito, the steep path to reach Mount San Giorgio begins

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From s. Bernardino, returning to Piossasco, along the road called La Viassa, a derogatory word to indicate that the road is always rather ugly and muddy, you reach the hamlet of Cappella. The name of the hamlet derives from the primitive chapel that probably already existed before the foundation of the hamlet. It was mentioned in the pastoral visitation of 1668. It seems that the chapel was closed by wooden gates and that the icon of the Madonna was painted on the wall. The annual feast was celebrated on the second day of May. In the pastoral visitation of 1775 it is said that the gates were already made of iron and that the chapel was dedicated to the Madonna delle Grazie. However, in a report of the vicar of S. Vito, Don Rossi, in 1812 it is said that the chapel is dedicated to the Madonna dei Fiori. This change of name occurred because in the meantime the Prarosto Chapel had been built, dedicated to the Madonna delle Grazie: it was not appropriate that in the same parish there were two chapels with the same title. In the chapel we continue to honor the Madonna under the beautiful title of “Madonna dei Fiori” (Mystical Rose), invoking her protection in the spring flowering, especially from frost. The current chapel was purchased with the donations of all the inhabitants of the hamlet. The chapel was built on the corner of a vineyard owned in 1895 by Mrs. Agata Giuliano ved. Goffi, who sold the vineyard to Mr. Pietro Difesa, but excluded the chapel, which she instead sold to Mrs. Giorgina Lana, née Picco, for the sum of 100 lire, with a notarial deed dated 14 November 1895. Her son Mr. Lana Vittorio, with a notarial deed dated 14 September. In 1924 it was sold and given to the community of inhabitants of the hamlet of Cappella (for which the parties Romano Edoardo, Andruette Giovanni, Pautasso Giuseppe, Bonetto Mattia, Zoppetto Lorenzo, Bertinetto Antonio and Gonella Michele accepted all the rights of ownership and dominion). and use is due to her as heir of her mother Picco Giorgina fu Vittorio ved. Lana Edoardo, above the aforementioned chapel. As a fee, an amount of 500 lire was agreed, which the factionalists explained as the result of ablations collected among the inhabitants of the fraction

Working fountain in front of ancient structure made of river stones and wood

Country church on the route that joins Piossasco to Allivellatori passing by the ruined church of San Bernardino. It is also located a short distance from the Bruino-Pinerolo cycle path, and is well worth the 50m detour. It's nothing to write home about, but it just has the flavor of the religious architectures of old Piedmont.

Piazza San Vito, or simply "Piazza", was the first inhabited nucleus to rise under the protection of the castle, and around it the city developed. Access to the inhabited area was through a large door called PORTA DEL BORGO PIAZZA, of which we have news for the first time in a document from 1387, which states that the door was built between the buildings and also inhabited above the arch from time as today. The gate, which can be seen in the arch of Via San Domenico Savio, was one of the three entrances to the old village through the former Via Tupinaria, which is now reduced to a disused path called "Strà dei Babi" (Toads). For those who came to the gate through this street in the Middle Ages, the apse and bell tower faced the original Romanesque church of San Vito, to the right of it the monastery, to the left a small cemetery and a larger room than today. There was no bank leading to the small door on the east side. The parish church of San Vito, to which Saints Modesto and Crescenza have been added, appears in a document from 1222 commemorating Vito Pereto, the first known prior. The church with the adjoining monastery was held first by the Benedictines and then by the Cistercians, as evidenced by the first seven known pastors who were assigned the title of prior. It got secular in 1452 when the last prior, Gabriele de Buri, a Cistercian monk, was reduced to the century. In the period between 1692 and 1699 the church, like other sacred buildings, was desecrated by various armies passing by. The church was expanded gradually over the centuries, with the side aisles being extended to the front. The almost final structure of the building, which corresponds to today's plan, was achieved between the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century. The present large sacristy was built in the 18th century; the facade was erected in 1886. The apse and the lower part of the bell tower have been preserved from the original Romanesque plan of the church from the 11th century. On the second floor of the old rectory, formerly the site of the monastery that was attached to the church, there is a FRESKO of fine craftsmanship from the mid-15th year around 1960 in a room converted into a corridor. From http://archeocarta.org/

Remains of an eighteenth-century church. Picturesque. To get there, there is a beautiful stretch of dirt road between fields and woods, with a compact bottom, suitable for all bikes. A nice outing.

The original structure, of which several traces remain, dates back to the 11th century, but it was remodeled several times over the centuries. Today, it remains a beautiful structure, primarily from the 18th century. The surrounding square is very beautiful. A short distance away is the Castello dei Nove Merli, now a restaurant.