Valdocco

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Valdocco is a district of Turin , the name of which is commonly used today for the first oratorio for young people founded by St. John Bosco in 1846 . This institution is still considered the Casa madre of the Salesians of Don Bosco, even if the Generalate is now in Rome . Don Bosco died in Valdocco in 1888. In the basilica are the relics of him, Dominikus Savio and Maria Mazzarello .

Today there are:

• the Maria-Hilf-Basilica
• the Church of St. Francis de Sales
• the Pinardi Chapel
• the Provincialate of the Province of Piedmont
• the Italian mission procuration of the Salesians of Don Bosco
• the Don Bosco Middle School
• a vocational school (Cnos-Fap Centro Valdocco)

Web links

• Main page of all facilities