Fontanigorda - Italy

Fontanigorda (GE)

Liguria (Italy)

A dense forest of oak and chestnut trees in high val Trebbia surrounding this small town, which heads a few other localities including stand Casoni and Canale.
It was the first possession of the Malaspina, then Fieschi and Doria.
The area is rich in springs, and this is probably the origin of the name Fontanigorda.
Water is plentiful and fresh, and the village are thirteen fountains of column-shaped, with the image of Our Lady of Sorrows, Patroness of the town .
And tourists seeking tranquility in contact with nature will not be disappointed: here the transition from an agricultural center to resort took place slowly, without losing their ties to history and territory.
He saw the poet Giorgio Caproni, who was adopted by Trebbia Valley, and staying close to Rovegno, wrote pages on peasant life and the intense drama of depopulation.
A beautiful poem is dedicated to the Bosco delle Fate (Fairy Wood), a chestnut outside Fontanigorda in which each year hosts a traditional feast.
The Fairy Wood has recently been equipped with excellent sports facilities, and has become a multipurpose center in the open air that has few equals in Liguria.
The excursions from the town and villages ranging from green valleys to the bare rock of the highest peaks, subject to heavy erosion that has created a variety of colors and shapes.
From Pass Fregarolo you can easily reach the valley Aveto: on this route, which crosses the valley of Sermigliasca, meet the chapel of San Rocco and the Virgin, which the popular faith gives salvation from a plague epidemic 1849, and the fraction of Casoni, where the church dedicated to St. Bartholomew with its bell tower 50 meters high.
Due Ponti, the valley is a village at the confluence of ancient routes.