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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
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