Cabella Ligure
The Borbera Valley defines the setting of Cabella Ligure — a folded stretch of the Ligurian Apennines where wooded ridges, orchards and cultivated clearings shape a scattered mountain settlement. The Borbera River crosses the municipality before joining the Scrivia, and Pobbio is among the small hamlets set across its upper slopes. Cabella Ligure lies in Piedmont’s Province of Alessandria, close to the Ligurian border, in terrain markedly different from the broad plains around the regional capital. Its rural fabric is formed by narrow plots, woodland and long-established hillside communities, giving this part of Val Borbera a distinctly secluded, upland character.
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Built around the Borbera stream in the upper Val Borbera, Cabella Ligure grew into a small mountain comune in the Ligurian Apennines of south-eastern Piedmont. The settlement lies in a wooded valley where the Borbera flows towards the Scrivia, in the Province of Alessandria yet close in character to Liguria’s inland mountain country. The parish church of San Lorenzo is a local landmark, while the municipal area includes several scattered hamlets beyond the main settlement. Val Borbera is defined by chestnut woodland, stone-built communities and old routes through the Apennines. Continue through nearby webcams to explore different parts of Val Borbera and Piedmont.
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