Monte Cavanero

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The mountain's name may derive from the Latin Mons Capanerium, or Mount of the Huts,{{cite web|access-date=2023-02-10|publisher=Parco naturale del Marguareis|title=Preistoria|url=https://www.parcomarguareis.it/cultura/preistoria}} perhaps in turn related to a pre-Celtic toponym that also referred to the presence of a protohistoric settlement.{{cite web|url=http://toponimi.chambradoc.it/applications/dictionary/siteToponymChambra/index.jsp?_VP_V_ID=2093890942&CM=ED&_VP_OBJ_ID=27141&FIND_VALUE=193419&SEARCH_TYPE=MUNICIPALITY_FIND&FIND_ATTESTATIONS=no|editor=Chambra d'Oc|title=Ou Cavanè|access-date=2023-02-10}}

The mountain lies on the right side of the Pesio river, at the outlet of its valley onto the plain, and overlooks the village of Chiusa di Pesio to the east. A coastline of wooded relief connects it eastward to the Bric Barelllo and Costa Neranotte, while to the southeast the Colle del Mortè (711 m) connects this wide semicircle of low mountains with the rest of the Marguareis Alps.Marazzi, Atlante Orografico delle Alpi Its topographic prominence is 15m.{{cite web|access-date=2022-02-10|language=en|publisher=peakery.com|title=Monte Cavanero|url=https://peakery.com/monte-cavanero-italy/}}

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The mountain is characterized by schistose rocks of Triassic origin, structurally related to the reliefs located west of Villanova Mondovì, such as Mount Calvario and Costa Neranotte.{{cite book|access-date=2023-02-10|author=AA.VV. (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)|date=1963|language=fr|page=17|publisher=Presses universitaires de France|title=Revue de géographie physique et de géologie dynamique - bulletin du Laboratoire de géographie physique de la Faculté des sciences de l'Université de Paris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nYgPAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Est+du+Monte+Cavanero%22|volume=5}}

File:Monte_Cavanero_wayside_shrine.png just upstream of the castle]]

On a secondary relief of Mount Cavanero, overlooking the village of Chiusa Pesio, stands Mirabello Castle. An early medieval fortified building was built by reusing materials from an earlier Roman fortification located a little further upstream. After the mid-16th century the pre-existing structures were dismantled by Agamemnon III, lord of Chiusa, to build a more modern castle. Only a few ruins remain of the castle today, following damage from abandonment and an earthquake on 23 February 1887.{{cite web|access-date=2023-02-10|publisher=Comune di Chiusa Pesio|title=Il Castello di Mirabello|url=https://www.comune.chiusadipesio.cn.it/Home/Guida-al-paese/IDDETTAGLIO/29043}}

The area was inhabited even before Roman times, and a necropolis used between the 11th and 9th centuries B.C. was found on the mountain, that is, between the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age period.{{cite web|access-date=2022-02-11|author=Roberto Pockaj|date=2021|publisher=alpicuneesi.it|title=07.19 Chiusa di Pesio - Castello Mirabello - Monte Cavanero|url=https://www.alpicuneesi.it/itinerari/vallepesio/0719.htm}} To the Iron Age presumably also date back the Monte Cavanero Bronzes, a series of 319 objects discovered in 1991 in the so-called Cavanero hoardSo called because it was presumably the warehouse of an Iron Age craftsman. and now preserved in the "Cav. G. Avena" Museum Complex in Chiusa Pesio.{{cite web|url=http://www.galgvp.eu/it/cultura/24-i-bronzi-del-monte-cavanero.html|title=I bronzi del Monte Cavanero|editor=GAL Valli Gesso Vermenagna Pesio|access-date=2022-02-11}} The artifacts, which are of considerable archaeological importance, have also been temporarily exhibited abroad.{{cite web|url=https://www.areeprotettealpimarittime.it/news/1309/in-mostra-i-bronzi-del-cavanero|title=Tornano in mostra i bronzi del Cavanero|editor=Ente di gestione Aree Protette Alpi Marittime|access-date=2022-02-11}}

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The summit of Mount Cavanero can be easily reached on foot, in about an hour's walk, passing near Mirabello Castle. The start of the hike can be made after parking the car beside the road that connects the center of Chiusa with the Mortè hill.

• Chiusa di Pesio
• Pesio
• Mirabello Castle (Piedmont)

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• {{Cite book |last=Marazzi |first=Sergio |title=Atlante Orografico delle Alpi. SOIUSA |publisher=Priuli & Verlucca |year=2005 |isbn=9788880682738 |location=Pavone Canavese (TO)}}
• {{Cite book |url=http://www.pcn.minambiente.it/viewer/ |title=Cartografia ufficiale italiana in scala 1:25.000 e 1:100.000 |publisher=Istituto Geografico Militare}}
• {{Cite book |title=Carta dei sentieri e stradale scala 1:25.000 n. 16 Val Vermenagna Valle Pesio Alta val Ellero Parco naturale del Marguareis |publisher=Fraternali editore |location=Ciriè}}
• {{Cite book |title=Carta in scala 1:50.000 n. 8 Alpi Marittime e Liguri |publisher=Istituto Geografico Centrale |location=Turin}}

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Category:Cuneo

Category:Mountains of the Ligurian Alps

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