There is a heart-shaped town whose name isanagram of Love. AND Ormeain province of Cuneoand is rich in nature, chestnut woods and stylish buildings Belle Époque. Urbanistically it is distributed slightly on a slope between 720 and 750 metres, surrounded by woods and the peaks of the Ligurian Alps and Pre-Alps. And it is precisely from the hills that surround it that its heart shape is most evident. In the centre, the main square which also presents itself, exactly like a heart a road artery of 300 meters from which those that in Liguria call i. branch off caruggi and here they are said trevi: narrow streets, which make people’s sociability pulsate.
The Belle Époque village
Ormea is part ofAssociation of Authentic Villages of Italy and it matters 1500 inhabitantswhich in the summer become 6000 for second homes and visiting tourists. Ormea is full of Art Nouveau buildings, a Belle Époque that characterized the valleyintroducing important and decisive economic movements for the development of the area, as the mayor recalls Giorgio Ferraris: «At the end of the 19th century the railway arrived in Ormea which brought the manufacturing industry, especially the paper mill, and a great flourishing, as demonstrated by the Art Nouveau buildings, including the Grand Hotel of 1895».
The place to say “yes”
It may be for the elegance and liberty charm, for the shape or for the play on the word Ormea/Love but the city has become the place of love: «To write the O of Ormea we Ormea people usually use the shape of the heart”explains Mayor Giorgio Ferraris, saying that in recent years more and more couples are choosing his city to get married.
“As first citizen in my sixth term, I married many couples, and recently also many non-residents.”
Trekking and cycling in the woods
But Ormea – in Piedmont just 40 minutes from Imperia – is also the perfect place for magnificent mountain excursions, and for bike routes through the chestnut and beech woods: the Balcony of Ormea, for example, it is a 40 km cycle route between 800 and 1500 meters above sea level, which passes through various hamlets and villages with stops in a small dairy farm and in some excellent restaurants.
The Museum of Memories made by people
TO Chionea (which is an anagram for me too!)one of the 17 hamlets of Ormea, there is a museum that is worth a visit: it is the Museum of Memoriesa sort of three-dimensional anthology where the past is present and is built thanks to the help of the inhabitants, who bring ancients everyday objects, old photographs and together, even their own storiesto tell how we lived (and live) in the mountains of Cuneo in a heart-shaped town.
Source: Vanity Fair
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