Sansicario

{{Expand Italian|topic=geo|date=May 2022}} {{use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Location map|Italy |label = Sansicario |lat_deg = 44 |lat_min = 57 |lon_deg = 06 |lon_min = 48 |width=200 |mark = Blue pog.svg |marksize = 6 |float = right |caption = |border=gray }} thumb '''Sansicario''' (also spelled '''San Sicario''') is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Cesana Torinese (Metropolitan City of Turin) in Piedmont, north-western Italy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The village of San Sicario, municipality of Cesana Torinese (TO) Piemonte |url=http://italia.indettaglio.it/eng/piemonte/torino_cesanatorinese_sansicario.html |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=italia.indettaglio.it}}</ref>

It lies at {{convert|1700|m|ft|abbr=in}} in the Val Susa and has a population of 93 people.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-10-14 |title=Luoghi di interesse |url=http://www.comune.cesana.to.it/it/il-territorio/luoghi-di-interesse.aspx |language=it|access-date=2022-05-02 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014142836/http://www.comune.cesana.to.it/it/il-territorio/luoghi-di-interesse.aspx |archive-date=14 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It is a famous winter tourist resort.<ref>{{Cite news|first=Sarah|last=Martinenghi|date=2022-04-10 |title=È finita la stagione dello sci: "Il prossimo anno su i prezzi" |url=https://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2022/04/11/news/e_finita_la_stagione_dello_sci_il_prossimo_anno_su_i_prezzi-344983894/ |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=la Repubblica |language=it}}</ref> Part of the Via Lattea (Milky Way) skiing area.

At the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, it hosted the biathlon, luge, skeleton, bobsled, and also the Women's' Downhill and Super-G Alpine skiing races.

It is ultimately unknown how Sansicario came to derive its name from the saint. Even so, the original church in the area was dedicated to a certain Saint Sicarius, and the village appears to have taken its name from that dedication. In French it was known as ''Saint Sicaire'' (and ''Saint Sicary'' in the local Occitan dialect). After the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht divided the Republic of the Escartons—leaving the western escartons (including Briançon and Queyras) with France and transferring the eastern Escarton of Oulx to the Duchy of Savoy—the name was gradually Italianized, eventually becoming ''Sansicario''.

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