Patron saint festival In 282 days
Feast of Saint James the Greater
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Briga Alta, a municipality of 48 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron Saint James the Greater (San Giacomo Maggiore).
Briga Alta has a few dozen inhabitants, the second least populated municipality in Italy after Morterone and one of the very few with fewer than one resident per square kilometre. It is made of three hamlets: Piaggia, the council seat, Upega and Carnino. The territory comes in two separate pieces: to reach the other two from the town hall you must leave Piedmont, cross Liguria and climb the Colletta delle Salse.
The break has a date. Under the Paris treaties of 1947 Tenda and Briga Marittima, today La Brigue, went to France, while the upper part of the old municipality, towards the Tanaro basin, stayed Italian and became a municipality of its own, keeping the name Briga after the old one. The arms say the rest: the motto Fracta resurget, “broken, she shall rise again”, and, quartered, the arms of the Lascaris of Ventimiglia, once lords here, with a crowned double-headed eagle. Its southernmost point, on Monte Saccarello, is also the southernmost point of Piedmont.
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Places to see within 25 km
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chiesa dei Santi Martino e Rosa 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The Dominicans' church on the Monticano, in Conegliano: an unfinished brick façade and an Adoration of the Shepherds. chiesa dei Santi Rocco e Domenico 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The church of San Rocco in Conegliano, an ex-voto for the plague of 1630: twentieth-century façade, a De Min ceiling. duomo di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km Conegliano's cathedral, hidden behind the frescoed Scuola dei Battuti: inside is Cima's altarpiece of 1492. Museo civico di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km The museum in the tower of Conegliano's castle: picture gallery, detached frescoes and the panoramic terrace on top. chiesa di San Dionigi 📍 Conegliano · 17 km The parish church of Collalbrigo, a hamlet of Conegliano, rebuilt after the 1873 earthquake and consecrated in 1894. Chiesa di San Giorgio 📍 Pordenone · 21 km Pordenone church with a bell tower shaped like a Doric column and the statue of Saint George on top.