Patron saint festival In 191 days
Feast of Saint George
📅 Every year, on 23 April
On 23 April Viola, a municipality of 425 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron Saint George, to whom the parish church is dedicated.
The name means “little road” and may recall a minor Roman route over the Mindino pass into Liguria; another reading makes it an oil road, the via olea, backed by the Latin form Vehola in early documents. Papers of 1142 already record Viola as an active community of the marquisate of Bonifacio del Vasto.
The Mongia, which rises under Monte Mindino, splits the village in two. On one bank stands borgo Castello, where the marks of the old stronghold survive: there, in platea castri, justice was handed down in public. On the other clings the main village and its parish church of San Giorgio, founded around 1190 and later enlarged three times.
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Places to see within 25 km
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chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.