Patron saint festival In 158 days
Feast of Saint Benedict
📅 Every year, on 21 March
On 21 March Montezemolo, a municipality of 270 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron Saint Benedict, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
Montezemolo stands on the Ligurian border, at the meeting point of three Tanaro tributary valleys: the Cevetta, the Belbo and the Bormida. The main settlement is at 750 metres, and the Belbo rises here. The name comes from the Latin Mons Geminus, twin hills, for the two rises above the village; in twelfth-century documents the place appears as Montezemulus, within the marquisate of Ceva.
Part of the commune falls inside the Sorgenti del Belbo nature reserve, the only wetland of the Alta Langa, shared with Camerana and Saliceto, where 22 orchid species have been counted. In the eighteenth century the fief was bought by the Cordero of Mondovì: from this village that branch took its marquis title and the surname it still carries, Cordero di Montezemolo.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.