Patron saint festival In 53 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas
📅 Every year, on the Sunday closest to 6 December
Belvedere Langhe celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas on the Sunday closest to 6 December, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
Belvedere Langhe stands on a hilltop in the Alta Langa, and from there a stretch of the Alps is visible, from the Maritime Alps to Monte Rosa: the name says as much. The oldest documents naming the place, from 1162, call it de bellovidere; by 1197 the form had shortened to Belveer.
The castle lived off the same view: not a residence but a tower for lookout and defence, built in the fourteenth century. The French destroyed it in the wars of the seventeenth century, and only a few ruins remain. Near the cemetery, on a hill called the Castellazzo, excavations have brought to light the foundations of thick walls and a few skeletons.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Belvedere Langhe, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.