CEVA, a town of Piedmont, Italy, province of Cuneo, 33m. E. by rail from the town of Cuneo, on the line to Savona, 1,27of t. above sea-level. Pop. (1921) 3,793 (town) ; 5,836 (commune). The mediaeval fortress (defending the confines of Piedmont towards Liguria) was destroyed by the French in 1800, after cession to them in 1796. Cevan cheese (caseus cebanus) was famous in Roman times. A branch railway runs from Ceva through Garessio, with its marble quarries, to Ormea (2,398ft.), 22M. to the south through the upper valley of the Tanaro. From Ormea a road runs south to (31m.) Oneglia on the Ligurian coast.