Castiglione Chiavarese - Italy

Castiglione Chiavarese (GE)

Liguria (Italy)

Situated in a panoramic position on the road, rising from Sestri Levante, connect with Val Petronio Val di Vara Castiglione Chiavarese is a rural village surrounded by the typical bands planted with vines and olive trees.
271 meters from the center we go up to 1094 meters upstream of the Alps, from whose summit affords a wide panorama that sweeps from the promontory of Portofino on the arm and towards the province of La Spezia to the Apuan.
The neighboring mountain Pu and Mount Bath offer spectacular views and hiking trails by foot or mountain bike along the many paths that intersect with other paths from the Val di Vara.
Beyond the cultivated terraces, toward the mountain, overlooking the chestnut, as in the valley that you can take before reaching Castiglione and leading to the village of San Pietro Frascati, a medieval town dominated by the ruins of the ancient castle of the Da Passano (XI century ).
Very interesting historical complex of the Benedictine abbey of the issue, given by Charlemagne to the monks of Bobbio in 774.
In the village of Velva lies one of the Ligurian many shrines dedicated to the Madonna della Guardia, direct subsidiary of the Genoese, and the village church in Boulder dedicated to Our Lady of Loreto.
Other religious buildings of note are the Casareggio chapel, the small church of St. Helena and the remains of the ancient church of St. Nicholas.
Archaeological excavations in the area, also intense in the last year, testified the presence of man in ancient times.
The caves are prehistoric tombs, the mining of copper contemporary.
At Castiglione Chiavarese was born the famous navigator Giovanni Caboto.