Patron saint festival In 298 days
Feast of San Domenico
📅 Every year, on the second Sunday of August
On the second Sunday of August Priola, a municipality of 719 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron San Domenico.
Priola sits on both banks of the Tanaro: the main village and Pievetta on the valley floor, Casario higher up on the right, where the Colle della Rionda leads over to Calizzano. The southernmost point is Monte Spinarda, on the watershed between Tanaro and Bormida. A document of 1033 names a church of San Desiderio here, and a castle.
That castle was partly destroyed in 1518, and its ruins still crown the rocky spur above the right bank. At Casario the parish moved house, from the church of San Giusto to the chapel of San Rocco, of 1630, with its frescoes. Around Monte Sotta and Monte Spinarda men fought through Napoleon's two Italian campaigns.
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 200 m Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 2.8 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. viadotto Torrente Sori 📍 Sori · 5.5 km 105 metres above the valley: the Dywidag cantilever system made its Italian debut here in 1966. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Bargagli · 6.0 km Traso's parish church, dedicated to Milan's bishop in Genoese country. chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 5.9 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 6.1 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down