Patron saint festival In 297 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Cabella Ligure, a municipality of 554 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
Cabella Ligure stands in the Ligurian Apennines, where the Liassa joins the Borbera, and is one of only three Piedmontese municipalities that border Emilia-Romagna. It is named in twelfth-century documents. In 1783 the Pallavicini sold the fiefs of Cabella, Cremonte and Fontanarossa to prince Andrea IV Doria Pamphili for seven hundred and fifty thousand Genoese lire. The name gained “Ligure” only with the move to the province of Alessandria.
The Doria palace still holds the village from its high wall: a white quadrangular block, medieval in origin, wholly rebuilt in the seventeenth century. Below, the bell tower of San Lorenzo, founded in 1607, carries a clock under an onion dome.
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abbazia di Santa Maria al Porale 📍 Ronco Scrivia · 9.9 km Founded by Cistercians in 1208 for pilgrims on the Via Postumia, today a chapel with a fresco of 1446. Castello di Francavilla Bisio 📍 Francavilla Bisio · 10 km The medieval castle of Francavilla Bisio: towers, moat and six centuries of Spinola, Grillo and Guasco. Castello di Lercaro 📍 Ovada · 11 km A Lercaro fortified villa of 1570, given to the town in 1872 as a hospice, now a ruin chiesa di Nostra Signora Assunta 📍 Ovada · 12 km Sober baroque inspired by Genoa, with twin bell towers and Pietro Ivaldi's vault. chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Ovada · 12 km Founded by Dominicans in 1481, with a high altar brought from Genoa in 1690 chiesa dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Ovada · 12 km A plague vow of 1631, first stone in 1640, and an almost total rebuild after the 1935 fire