Cervo ( Ligurian : O Çervo ) is a small, ancient town and comune , built on top of a hill along the Italian Riviera in the province of Imperia . It has approximately 1,200 inhabitants. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").
5-649: The International Chamber Music Festival of Cervo was inaugurated in 1964, the brainchild of the renowned Hungarian violinist Sandor Vegh . It is held every July and August in the picturesque church square of Cervo , a small, ancient town in Liguria , Italy. Among the world-class stars who have performed here are Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Sviatoslav Richter , Wilhelm Kempff , Maurizio Pollini , Yehudi Menuhin , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Martha Argerich , Uto Ughi , Ivo Pogorelić , Andras Schiff , Luciano Berio , François-Joël Thiollier , Paul Badura-Skoda ,
10-629: A fief of the Clavesana marquis, who was a subject of the Republic of Genoa , to which Cervo had always been faithful. The present character of Cervo dates from these times: 16th-century towers and ramparts still protect the village. One of its main attractions is the fine baroque church of St. John the Baptist, overlooking the sea. The Romanesque Oratorio di Santa Caterina contain 18th-century frescoes . The medieval Clavesana stronghold hosts
15-691: The Ethnographic Museum of Western Liguria and the Palazzo Viale-Citati . Inhabitants used to earn a living from coral fishing in the Corsican and Sardinian seas, in addition to growing olives and seafaring, but the modern economy of Cervo is based on tourism and agriculture. Cervo's connections with classical music date from to 1964, when the International Chamber Music Festival of Cervo
20-573: The King's Singers , Rudolf Buchbinder , Cyprien Katsaris , Joseph Silverstein , Chi-Ho Han , Viktoria Mullova , Ulf Hoelscher , David Geringas , Arnulf von Arnim , Salvatore Accardo , and Fazıl Say . This music festival-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cervo, Liguria The settlement began as a Roman mansion along the Via Julia Augusta . Slowly expanding, it became, in medieval times,
25-634: Was established by the Hungarian violinist Sandor Vegh . The event has been held every summer ever since. Music master classes – Accademia di Cervo – are held in September, and a guitar academy is held in June. Cervo is twinned with: Part of the 1993 German film Stalingrad was filmed in Cervo. [REDACTED] Media related to Cervo (Italy) at Wikimedia Commons This Liguria location article
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