Patron saint festival In 84 days
Feast of Saint Julian
📅 Every year, on 9 January
On 9 January Carrega Ligure, a small municipality of 83 inhabitants, celebrates its patron Saint Julian; the town preserves the Torre Malaspina.
Carrega Ligure lies at the south-eastern tip of Piedmont, in the upper Val Borbera, the only municipality in the region bordering both Emilia-Romagna and Liguria. In Ligurian its name is Carêga, «chair», and Ligurian is still spoken here: for centuries it looked to Genoa, to the Imperial Fiefs and the salt-road trade, and in 1547 Charles V invested Andrea Doria as marquis of Carrega. It passed to the province of Alessandria only in the nineteenth century.
Until 1963 no road climbed from the valley floor: people went on foot, by mule across the Carreghino torrent again and again, or on the lese, ox-drawn sledges. When the road came, depopulation sped up instead of stopping, and many hamlets stand empty today, above all in the Campassi valley. With about one and a half inhabitants per square kilometre, Carrega is among Italy's least densely peopled municipalities, the first outside the Alps.
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Near Carrega Ligure
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Carrega Ligure, but an easy day trip away.
Castellazzo 📍 Caluso · 3.5 km The ruins of the medieval fort on the morainic hill that overlooks Caluso. chiesa di San Calocero 📍 Caluso · 3.5 km The ruins of a Romanesque church of 1177, the castle's own, with Roman bricks in its walls. Palazzo Valperga di Masino 📍 Caluso · 3.6 km The Valperga palace, now town hall and regional wine cellar, with a park turned botanical garden. Villa Griselli 📍 Caluso · 3.8 km An Art Nouveau villa of 1926, built at Caluso by a doctor home from Argentina. castello di Malgrà 📍 Rivarolo Canavese · 9.7 km A fourteenth-century castle on the plain, remade by Alfredo d'Andrade: the railway ran beneath it. chiesa parrocchiale di San Michele 📍 Rivarolo Canavese · 10 km An octagonal church of 1759, a masterpiece by Vittone, with a statue fished from the Orco.