The Precettoria of Sant’Antonio di Ranverso was founded in the twelfth century by the Antonite order, whose monks ran a hospital for pilgrims on the Via Francigena and treated ergotism, then called St.
Anthony’s Fire. What survives is a rarity for Piedmont: a Gothic complex with northern European touches, from the asymmetrical church front with terracotta decoration and pinnacles to a fourteenth-century portico with ribbed vaults. Inside, look for the fifteenth-century frescoes by Giacomo Jaquerio, the leading painter of International Gothic in Piedmont, and the 1531 altarpiece by Defendente Ferrari. It is one of three sites run by the Ordine Mauriziano, alongside Stupinigi and Staffarda.
