Altitude: 220 m a.s.l.

Area: 2.4 sq km

Distance from Imperia: 9 km

Inhabitants: in 1881: 853 - in 2017: 839

Patron Saint Day: June 24th - San Giovanni Battista

Information: Municipality phone 0183 98009

Costarainera (from "Costa dei Raineri") developed from the sixteenth century on, following the political fate of Lingueglietta.

Visit of the town

On the small widening just above the clearing where you can park stands on the right the Baroque oratory of San Carlo which preserves the rough fresco "Ultima Cena"inside above the front door; the building is in a state of serious decay and is even used as a warehouse with a large refrigeration unit by the grocery store that faces it.

Next to it is the eighteenth-century church of San Giovanni Battista, which houses a wooden sculpture of the "Baptism of Jesus" and another one of the Virgin, both anonymous; in the chapel on the right, protected by a railing, are preserved several seventeenth-century reliquaries.

Once out of the church notice on the apse the two sundials, of which one by now washed away, and climb to the right under the vaults of Via Sant'Antonio; about thirty meters after the little loggia, once you reach the crossroads turn around to look, beyond the slab of a terrace, the remains of a medieval tower with stone shelves that supported the machicolations.

Continuing the ascent you will arrive under the Amerigo House loggia, whose various plaques remind us of the multi-faceted merits of the various descendants of the family: priests, priors and mayors for generations; to the left is the chapel of San Bernardo, now in disuse.

Since coming from Lingueglietta you have already visited the church of Sant'Antonio, return to the car and continue on the Provincial Road that in a kilometer takes you to Cipressa.