Altitude: 149 m a.s.l.
Area: 8 sq km
Distance from Imperia: 40 km
Inhabitants: in 1881: 1000 - in 2017: 1324
Patron Saint Day: August 10th - San Lorenzo
Information: Municipality phone 0184 290572
Back to the car continue reaching after a kilometer Vallebona where you can park in the square at the beginning of the village, noticing the restored sundial on the facade of the restaurant.
Visit of the town
Enter the village through the gate on the left, which preserves the machicolation at the top and the holes for the latches in the jambs and, proceeding under the vaults, take the left under the other vault that leads to the square with stone seats all around; in the front you’ll have the left side of the church of San Lorenzo with the original fourteenth-century quadrangular stone bell tower decorated with hanging arches.
The façade of the church is Baroque, as well as the second bell tower; of the original construction has been preserved the black stone portal of 1458, with a high pointed arch decorated with a star motif and an architrave carved with an Agnus between a floral decoration and the turreted emblem of the village.
Opposite is the Municipal Loggia with stone seats.
Climb the ramp next to the church reaching the churchyard of the Baroque oratory of the nativity of the Virgin Mary, brightly colored in red, with frescoes of saints and the baby Virgin Mary on the façade; it shares the bell tower with low slits with the parish below.
Continue along the ramp and then turn left; at the widening with two fountains continue along Via Roma, then to the right under the loggia and again to the right along Via Garibaldi.
Walk thus through narrow alleys under the low vaults of the heart of the medieval village, that you can observe even better if you go up to the left at the intersection to see Via Genova ending up in a sort of a very narrow little maze between the tall houses.
Go down the main street with a brick floor between the archaic houses of which only some have been restored; at the end of the street, after crossing the vault, you can go left to reach, fifty meters further, the access gate to the village, which preserves the hole for the latch on the right wall.
From there return to the vault and descend past the window-door of an ancient shop to return to the church square.
This scenario, architecturally enlivened by the overlying churchyard of the oratory, has seen from time immemorial the Sacred Representation of the "Tragedy", a reconstruction of the Passion of Christ interpreted in costume by the inhabitants of the village, repeated every ten years.