Shrines on the Municipal territory

Like many other rural municipalities, the territory of Roccavione is scattered with shrines, most of which were built between 1850 and today. These constructions are mostly square based and up to 2 or 3 meters high. Each of them remembers a historical event or attests to the devotion of the local population to dangers they


Typology Building

Period XVII

Accessibility Yes

Visitable Yes

Like many other rural municipalities, the territory of Roccavione is scattered with shrines, most of which were built between 1850 and today. These constructions are mostly square based and up to 2 or 3 meters high. Each of them remembers a historical event or attests to the devotion of the local population to dangers they escaped or favours they received, or to invoke protection or favours of any kind; all are named after God, the Virgin or even saints.

Two of them, both located in Borgata Malandre, although being recent reconstructions, they stand on equally important points of historical interest. Restored in 1980, the Pilone del Moro recalls with its position the expulsion of the Saracens in 985 and stands in an area with a wide view, a strategically important point to control the lower Val Vermenagna, the Val Colla, the area of Boves and Fontanelle, as well as Pedona (today Borgo San Dalmazzo) and the Castrum Auriatensium (according to some historians the Roman site from which the Roccavione settlement would have developed), with the entrance to the Gesso Valley, controlled by a fortress on the Rocca Morina. Of ancient origin the Pilone della Battaglia recalls the clash between the Angevin army and the anti-Angevin league formed by the Marquisate of Saluzzo, the Marquises of Monferrato and Pope Gregorio X which took place on 10 November 1275.

Conditions of visit

  • Pilone Sant’Anna, parking on the roadside nearby
  • Pilone Tetto Massa, parking on the roadside nearby
  • Pilone di San Rocco, parking on the roadside nearby
  • Pilone di Barme, parking on the roadside nearby
  • Pilone dell’Angelo Custode, parking on the roadside nearby (dirt road for 3 km)
  • Pilone di Tetto Rescasso, after a piece of dirt road, proceed on foot for 1 km
  • Pilone di San Sebastiano, parking on the roadside nearby
  • Pilone della Pica, parking on the roadside nearby
  • Pilone della Cascina, parking on the roadside nearby
  • Pilone Tetto Chiapello, parking on the roadside nearby
  • Pilone dar Quiot, proceed on foot at the end of strada Vermanera
  • Pilone di Tetto Carletto, parking on the roadside nearby
  • Pilone Cadel, parking on the roadside nearby
  • Pilone del Moro, parking on the roadside nearby
  • Pilone della Ramonda, park at Colletto del Moro, proceed on foot for around an hour
  • Pilone della Battaglia, park in the woods, then proceed on foot for 30 minutes.
  • Pilone di Quiri, park by the Chiesetta del Malandrè, proceed on foot

Freely visitable.

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Additional information

Bibliography

  • AA.VV., Le valli tra i parchi Marguareis e Alpi Marittime. Gesso, Vermegnana, Pesio, territorio della Bisalta, PiùEventi 2018, p.153 154.

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