Patron saint festival In 289 days
Saint Lawrence, patron of the town of the Abbey of Santa Maria
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Cavour celebrates Saint Lawrence on the first Sunday of August.
Cavour lies at the foot of a rock that rises only a hundred and sixty-two metres above the plain, and is seen from far off for that very reason: there is nothing else around. Geologists call it an inselberg, an isolated relief surrounded by more recent sedimentary deposits, and it is protected as a special nature reserve.
The name comes from Forum Vibii Caburrum: the Romans built the castrum Forum Vibii over a Ligurian settlement already called Caburrum, and the toponym would derive from the Caburriates, the small local Ligurian tribe. Of the Rocca, Giovanni Peyron held that in prehistory it had a sacred character, for that rare pairing of an isolated hill and a spring.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Cavour, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.