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tadino, in regione Braide, è situata la Cappella della Madonna di
Loreto (1618). Adiacente alla Cappella, si erge il Torrione di Loreto.
In regione Rorea ai confini con Balangero, sorge l’Eremo Camaldo-
lese, costruito su progetto dell’architetto F. Lanfranchi nel 1661.
art Along the main road of the old hamlet, that winds across the peak of M. Buriasco, one can
reach the ‘Torre Aymone di Challant’, once equipped with a drawbridge which represented the
main entrance to the Hamlet and the Castle. Its construction, repeatedly renovated, probably
dates back to the XIIcent. At present after the restoration based on the project of the architect
Augusto Cavallai Murat, the places adjacent to the tower host the Civic Library with more than
33,000 volumes. At the top of the mountain we can find the Castle, built in about the XIcent. on
commission of the Bishop Landolfo of Torino. Seized in 1556 by the French Duke Carlo De Brissac,
it was razed to the ground and only in the XIVcent. was it rebuilt and the walls enriched with to-
wers equipped with four small cannons. After that, Bartolomeo Bonesio made it into a convent of
Capuchin Friars that during Napoleon’s time was sold to Don Bosco. Adjoining the castle, in Piazza
Albert, rises the ‘Parrocchiale di S. Pietro in Vincoli’ (XIcent.). it was knocked down in 1543
by Giangiacomo de Medici of Melegnano. It was built again and reopened in 1591. Inside, on
the right of the entrance, a painting of the 17th century represents the Resurrection, and on the
cupola of the corresponding nave, one can see a fresco representing the ‘passion’. Above the main
altar a spade belonging to the Beaumont is situated which reproduces the liberation of ‘Saint
Pietro in Vincoli’, dated between 1775 and 1800 and in the nave on the left it is possible to see the
painting, dated between 1663 and 1875, which represents the Saints Romualdo and Bonifacio,
painted by G. F. Sacchetti for the church of the Eremo Camaldolese of Lanzo. Still on the nave on
the right a picture by the painter C. Saraceni is visible in which S. Francesco receives the stigmate.
The frescos of the central nave by G. Guglielmino, portray episodes of the life of S. Peter and some
evidence of the stay of Don Bosco in Lanzo. Among other squares there are Piazza Gallenga of
the 15th century and Piazza di S. Maria del Borgo where the homonymous church, wich dates
back to the XVIcent., is situated and seat of the important ‘Confraternita del Sacro Cuore di Gesù’.
Still in the centre one can find the ‘Casa dei Ceci’, the ‘Palazzo degli Estensi’, the ‘Casa Comunale’
where a spade called ‘Historia Communitatis Lancei’, painted by Luigi Togliatto is kept, and the
Hospital Mauriziano. Outside the walls rises the medieval ‘Ponte del Diavolo’ (the Devil’s brid-
ge - 1378) whose construction was given to Giovanni Porcherio. At the entrance of the ‘Ponte del
Diavolo’ one can see the ‘Cappella di S. Rocco’ built in the 18th century. In front of the ‘Cappella di
San Rocco’, we can find the statue of the ‘Madonna degli Alpini’, placed to remember the soldiers
killed during the wars and to protect the valleys. This location which has a spectacular panorama,
ranges over the entire plain and also allows a view of the ‘Santuario di Saint’Ignazio’ placed on
the top of Mount Bastia at about 1,000mt. At one and a half kilometres from the town centre
in the Braide region, is situated the ‘Cappella della Madonna di Loreto’ (1618). Adjacent to the
Chapel, there is the ‘Torrione di Loreto’ and in the Rorea region rises the ‘Eremo Camaldolese’ built
upon the project of the architect Francesco Lanfranchi in 1661. The complex, declared a National
Monument, is at present being renovated and it is possible to visit it only from the outside.

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