Closure of the Rubiana Cas (reception centre)
Date of the event:
The extraordinary reception centre (Cas) of Rubiana, in the Susa Valley, ceases operations by 17 November 2026. The facility, set up in the former Miramonti hotel in the Ruatta hamlet, had been operating since October 2024. The last 39 asylum seekers still housed there are transferred to other centres run by the Argonauti cooperative between Pianezza and Turin [1][2].
The reasons for the closure
According to local press reports, the closure is due to the lack of a financial agreement between the Versoprobo cooperative, which ran the service, and the Prefecture of Turin. The cooperative reportedly decided not to accept the new conditions set out in the Prefecture's tenders, considering it unsustainable to continue the service at the proposed rates [1].
Two years of activity
Since it opened in autumn 2024, the centre has housed hundreds of young men overall who arrived in Italy as a first landing point. The start of its activity had raised questions and concerns among part of Rubiana's population, to the point that the municipal administration led by mayor Gianluca Blandino organised a public meeting to explain how the reception was managed [1][2]. Over the following two years, local associations and volunteers promoted literacy, assistance and integration initiatives for the facility's residents [1][2].
The future of the former Miramonti
With the departure of the last residents, the question of the future use of the former Miramonti hotel remains open, now that the roughly two-year experience of the reception centre has come to an end [1].
Sources
- Valsusa, chiude il centro per i migranti di Rubiana: in 39 lasciano l'ex hotel Miramonti — Valsusa Oggi, 11 November 2026
- Cas di Rubiana, chiude l'ex Miramonti — L'Agenda News, 11 November 2026