Spighe Verdi
Spighe Verdi in Liguria
4 towns
Liguria holds 4 Spighe Verdi sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Savona, Genova, and Imperia provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Borgio Verezzi, Lavagna, and Andora. 1 more town carries the mark alongside them.
The towns
Borgio Verezzi
Province: Savona · 30 m
Two villages joined under one comune in 1933: Borgio on the coast below, Verezzi on the pink-stone hill above.
Lavagna
Province: Genova · 6 m
The Tigullio town that gave its name to slate, and its counts to a line of popes.
Andora
Province: Savona · 10 m
A Riviera town with two faces, two kilometers of sandy beach on the Aurelia and a ruined twelfth-century castle hidden on a hill behind it.
Sanremo
Province: Imperia · 10 m
The capital of the Italian Riviera dei Fiori: Belle Époque casino and palm-lined Lungomare on the seafront, a medieval labyrinth climbing the hill behind, and a year-round mild climate that built the original Northern European winter trade.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Polcenigo
Province: Pordenone
A 40-meter village at the foot of the Carnic Prealps where the Livenza rises, neighbor to the UNESCO Palù pile-dwelling site occupied since 4900 BC.
Faenza
Province: Ravenna
The city that gave its name to faïence, with a tin-glazed maiolica tradition since the fourteenth century and the world ceramics museum since 1908.
Pietramontecorvino
Province: Foggia
A village at 456 meters on a tufa spur with a 30-meter Norman-Angevin tower and houses carved into the rock.
Valsinni
Province: Matera
A 1,309-resident Lucanian borgo on a hilltop above the Sinni river, where a 16th-century Renaissance poet was murdered by her brothers in 1545, marked today by a Touring Club Bandiera Arancione and a place inside the Pollino park.
Lapio
Province: Avellino
A 1,426-resident Irpinia hilltop borgo at 590m in the hills east of Avellino, recognized by a rare four-signal combination (Città del Vino + Olio + Miele + Nocciola) for the whole local agricultural ecosystem.