The comune is made of two pieces that do not touch, some fifty kilometres apart: to the north the village proper, at the gates of Mondovì; to the south, up against the Ligurian Alps, an almost uninhabited territory. It is what is left of the grazing rights the people of Magliano won up there over the centuries, and the village kept jurisdiction over that ground.
Up there too lies Lake Raschera, which gives its name to the cheese. The village name is argued over: from the Latin family name Mallius, or, more plainly, from a forge hammer that served the area. It was Magliano di Mondovì, and took its present name after a Turin appeal court ruling of 1875 assigned it those alps for good.
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📅 Every year, on 16 July, celebrated the first week of the month with the Summer Festival
Magliano Alpi celebrates Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 16 July; the first week of the month hosts the Summer Festival, celebrating the arrival of the season together with the town's patron, while in mid-October the Fiera del margaro welcomes back the herders from the mountains with their livestock.
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Outside Magliano Alpi, but an easy day trip away.
