Patron saint festival In 273 days
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, patron of the land of the Castello di Grinzane Cavour
📅 Every year, on 16 July
Grinzane Cavour celebrates Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 16 July.
The village was called simply Grinzane until 1916, when it added the name of Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour. The statesman had served as its mayor for seventeen consecutive years, and he was only twenty-two when they appointed him.
The medieval castle stands above the houses and was long the heart of the family's farming estate; it now holds the regional wine cellar, and the literary prize named after the village was based here too. Since 2014 it has belonged to the Langhe-Roero and Monferrato vineyard landscape on the World Heritage list. One of the Barolo vineyard names recorded within the commune is simply Castello.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Grinzane Cavour, but an easy day trip away.
Marinelli Bell Foundry 📍 Agnone · 10 km One of Italy's oldest family businesses, this pontifical foundry has been casting bells since 1040. chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Agnone · 10 km An emerald-green dome, a Gothic portal and a book museum inside the friary. chiesa di San Marco Evangelista 📍 Agnone · 9.8 km A Venetian winged lion carved over the portal of Agnone's mother church. chiesa di Sant'Emidio Vescovo e Martire 📍 Agnone · 10 km The Gothic portal and rose window of the church Agnone calls its duomo. Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 17 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carovilli · 18 km The marble font carved with the barons' portraits, in Carovilli's parish church.