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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