3 facts about Cuneo
Cuneo is the main town near Cascina La Commenda and is located at just few minutes ride from here. Before you visit Cuneo, enjoy 3 curious facts about its name, history and typical products. There we go:
- Where does the name Cuneo come from? Cuneo is the name of our town but also a word in the Italian dictionary meaning wedge. Cuneo has been built on a plateau that has the shape of long triangle, more precisely a wedge. The plateau is shaped by two rivers (Gesso and Stura) that meet at the summit of the triangle.
- Cuneo and the Resistance. In the Second World War, Cuneo played a fundamental role in the Resistance movement against German and Fascists troops. Heroes such as Duccio Galimberti and Nuto Revelli (who was also a writer) were born in Cuneo, and there were many groups of young and brave partisans in most valleys around the city.
- Cuneese al Rhum is the most typical product of Cuneo: chocolate and rhum cream between two layers of meringue, then everything is covered by a layer of dark chocolate. Already in the XX Century, Cuneesi al rhum were so famous and appreciated, that in 1954 Ernest Hemingway stopped in Cuneo to buy them.