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Parish Church of San Vito, Modesto, and Crescenza

Parish Church of San Vito, Modesto, and Crescenza

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Parish Church of San Vito, Modesto, and Crescenza

Name: Parish Church of San Vito, Modesto, and Crescenza
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Location: Piossasco, Torino, Piedmont, Italy

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2. Colle della Serva – Chapel of San Giorgio loop from Piossasco

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3. Chapel of San Giorgio – Monte Pietraborga loop from Piossasco

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Manfred Riegel

January 12, 2022

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.

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Giancarlo & 🐕

December 2, 2025

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

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Parish Church of San Vito, Modesto, and Crescenza

1. Chapel of San Giorgio loop from Piossasco

2. Colle della Serva – Chapel of San Giorgio loop from Piossasco

3. Chapel of San Giorgio – Monte Pietraborga loop from Piossasco

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