Patron saint festival In 179 days
Feast of San Nicolao
📅 Every year, on the second Sunday after Easter
On the second Sunday after Easter Vernante, a municipality of 1,217 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron San Nicolao.
Charters call the village Alvergnandus in 1041, then Alvernantus, Alvergnandum, Alvergnantus, and finally Vernante. The root seems to be the Celtic verna, the black alder that fills the valley: the town put it on its coat of arms, a tree on a gold field with the motto In silvis salus, health in the woods.
Since 1280 the Tourousela has watched over the roofs, the keep raised by Pietro Balbo, count of Tenda, to defend the county. Its tower is an irregular hexagon, and an underground passage, now impassable, ran down to the Vermenagna to water the horses. In 1966 it was declared unsafe and blown up; the pieces were recovered and put back.
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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