Vobbia - Italy

Vobbia (GE)

Liguria (Italy)

Vobbia is still one of the most distant from the Ligurian sea.
Stop on the ancient Salt Road, today is a country with many small villages scattered on the mountain, where centuries-old chestnut Pian Pareto and forests of beech and oak cover most of the territory, part of the park Antola.
There are plenty of trails for hiking and mountain biking.
Vobbia is known for the bold Stone Castle, which lies nestled in the pudding stone, which was originally built in one thousand.
Beneath the imposing building along the road leading up to the country along the river Vobbia, meets Bridge Zan, built around 1250 and linked to the legend that the devil finished the work in a single night in exchange for taking the 'soul of the first loop, a certain John (in fact Zan dialects).
Research is ongoing on several archaeological sites of mortar and charcoal and crops typical of this area.
A Vobbia, country of shepherds and farmers, religious culture has left an impressive: in addition to the church of San Fermo, one of the oldest monasteries in the valley Scrivia (IX-X cent.), In all six parishes are frescoes Vobbia important Genoese painters, including Luca Cambiaso, Valerio Castello and others.
Noteworthy are the seventeenth-century oratory, in which there is a polychrome wooden statue of the Madonna (1450), and the church Salata, which has preserved a body of 1730.
Jubilee two routes: from the chapel of San Fermo Bobbio and Arezzo Ligure Vobbia.
A curiosity? Vobbia organizes every summer a truly singular event: the Palio of Gampo, the crossing of the river on stilts.