The Basilica of Don Bosco was built where the Biglione Farmstead once stood and where Don Bosco’s father worked as a farmer. There the Bosco family lived and Giovanni Bosco was born on 16th August 1815. His father Francesco died when Giovanni was not yet two years old. Mamma Margherita moved with the family, including the half-paralysed grandmother, to a shed bought by Francesco some months before he died that she set up to make it habitable.

The Basilica is actually made of two churches one on top of the other. The foundation stone was blessed on 11th June 1961 and the lower church was opened for worship in 1965. It can hold 700 people.


Day of the sick 2025 at Colle D.B.


Mass schedules :

Weekday – (Lower Basilica): 7.30 – 11.00 – 17.00
Prefestive – (Upper Basilica): 17.00

Sundays, public holidays, Easter Monday, St. Stephen’s Day – (Upper Basilica):
8.00 – 9.30 – 11.00 – 17.00 – 18.15

Confessions and Colloquies

Weekdays from Monday to Saturday mornings and the eve of holy days of obligation (Lower Basilica):
7.30 – 8.00 | 9.30 – 11.30  | 15.30 – 17.30
Saturday afternoons and vigils of holy days of obligation – (Upper Basilica):
15.30 – 18.00
Sundays and public holidays, Easter Monday and St Stephen’s Day – (Upper Basilica):
7.45 – 12.00 | 15.00 – 19.00

the Information Office, Holy Masses, Lost Property:

Weekdays : 9.00 – 12.00 and 14.30 – 18.00
Sundays and public holidays : 8.30 – 12.00 e 14.30 – 18.30


Information :

Rector of the Basilica:
father Ezio Orsini
E-mail:rettore@colledonbosco.it