Carrù stands at the start of the Langa, so much so that they call it the gate of the Langa. On the evening of 23 April 1796 Napoleon came through on his way down into Italy: his troops slept on the Preosa hill, he in the town, in a house on what is now via Mazzini, and before leaving he laid on the citizens a tax of over sixty thousand lire to be paid to his soldiers.
It was not the only time the town paid for armies passing through: French, Spanish and then Austro-Russian forces had themselves supplied and taxed it for more than a century. Here, on 24 March 1874, Luigi Einaudi was born, whom parliament elected in 1948 as the first president of the Italian Republic.
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📅 Every year, on 15 August; the Fat Ox Fair, since 1910, is held the second Thursday before Christmas
Carrù celebrates the Assumption of Mary on 15 August; the historic Fat Ox Fair, first held in 1910, takes place every year on the second Thursday before Christmas and draws thousands of visitors, while in September the Grape Festival is held.
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Outside Carrù, but an easy day trip away.
