Borghetto di Vara - Italy

Borghetto di Vara (SP)

Liguria (Italy)

A bridge separates the medieval from Borghetto Brugnato, near the confluence of the river Pogliaschino with the middle course of Vara.
And 'one of the centers arose in the Middle Ages as a way station along the direction from La Spezia to Genoa.
Passed by the bishops of the Brugnato Fieschi, the Malaspina and finally to Genoa.
Much earlier than the foundation of the village is the shrine of acolyte, built in 881 and now included in the cemetery.
The beautiful Romanesque portal bears engraved the cross of the bishops of Brugnato.
The festival is Sept. 12. Better known, and the center of devotion for all the middle valley of Vara, is the shrine of Our Lady of oak, built on an existing building at the beginning of the sixteenth century in a panoramic and secluded village near the Lake
An ancient Via Romea, before the sanctuary, coming to the Rover from Carrodano.
The party on 8 September, and also recalls a miraculous flowering of olive trees around the church.
The parish of St. Charles Borromeo is the twentieth century, while the remaining tower block in the center of the country belonged to the old church destroyed by bombing in 1944, with most of the country.
Cassana is a village with scattered houses, attractive to houses typical of the Val di Vara and some nearby caves can be visited with permission only by very experienced cavers.
A Ripalta the parish church is the tenth century.
Among the sports soccer fields and tennis courts, volleyball and basketball.
Vara river in this stretch, you can easily go in a canoe.
The paths to Carrodano, Cinque Terre and the Goblet Cornoviglio are suitable for trekking and mountain biking.