CAVES

Grottos, caves and suggestive natural gorges excavated by water over millennia in the Pietra di Finale have preserved the testimonies of the prehistoric men.

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IMPORTANT SITES

A European Prehistoric “sanctuary”

The Arene Candide cave is a prehistoric site of international importance for it’s long human frequentation and for the discovery within the cave of the grave of “The Young Price”, a hunter from the Upper Palaeolithic that died when he was 15 due to a violent trauma to the face. He was therefore buried within the cave with all the honours of a chief and so accompanied by rich grave goods.

The Arene Candide Cave

The Arene Candide Cave

SITO IN EVIDENZA

Un “santuario” della Preistoria europea

The Arene Candide cave is a prehistoric site of international importance for it’s long human frequentation and for the discovery within the cave of the grave of “The Young Price”, a hunter from the Upper Palaeolithic that died when he was 15 due to a violent trauma to the face. He was therefore buried within the cave with all the honours of a chief and so accompanied by rich grave goods.

The Arene Candide Cave

The Arene Candide Cave

Prehistoric cave sites

Il campanile medievale della chiesa di San Giovanni Battista a Bardino Vecchio fornisce uno dei più significativi esempi liguri di impiego decorativo nelle strutture architettoniche di forme ceramiche, denominate col termine generico di ‘bacini’.

Campanile di San Giovanni Battista a Bardino Vecchio

Campanile di San Giovanni Battista a Bardino Vecchio

Il Museo Dell’Orologio da Torre è il concretizzarsi del sogno di Giovanni, l’ultimo orologiaio della famiglia Bergallo, di donare la sua collezione al proprio paese Bardino Nuovo.

Museo dell’Orologio da Torre “G. B. Bergallo”

Museo dell’Orologio da Torre “G. B. Bergallo”

Set atop the promontory of Monte Lunante, the walls and the towers of the castle of Varigotti were meant to protect the natural harbour down below in the bay on the eastern side. It is known as the Baia dei Saraceni.

Castle of Varigotti

Castle of Varigotti

The Buraggi family that is originally from the Val Sciusa area had moved to Finalmarina and between the 17th and 18th century owned two prestigious palaces.

Villa Buraggi

Villa Buraggi

Palazzo Cavasola

Palazzo Cavasola

Palazzo Buraggi in Finalmarina

Palazzo Buraggi in Finalmarina

In Finalmarina the palace that belongs to the Counts of De Raymondi in Via Ghiglieri is an example of a 18th-19th century aristocratic home.

Palazzo De Raymondi

Palazzo De Raymondi

In Finalborgo the palace that once belonged to the Counts of Arnaldi closes on the western side Pizza del Tribunale.

Palazzo Arnaldi

Palazzo Arnaldi

A typical example of a porched area dedicated to commercial activities is that of the vaulted porch placed underneath the façades of the prestigious residences that are the background of todays Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II in Finalmarina. The vaults are held by strong Finale stone square or hexagonal pillars; the blocks of Finale stone come from the quarries of the Val Sciusa valley.

The loggia of Platea Magna

The loggia of Platea Magna

In piazza San Bartolomeo in Gorra, following the road for Colle del Melogno, a suggestive medieval loggia opens on the ancient road. What it was used for remains uncertain: it may have been used as a public area destined to the community of Gorra, organised in Compagna at least from 1268, or it may have been linked to one of the medieval roads that went towards the Alta Val Maremola and Melogno hill.

The loggia of Gorra

The loggia of Gorra

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