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Torre Paponi

5-6 APRILE     Giornata del FAI

The village

Torre Paponi offers the ancient fascination of Ligurian alleys.Time seems to have stopped at the Middle Age. 

Only a few years ago there were six oil mills  which produced oil using the power of water  in the traditional way. Today , one of them is still working.

Historic notes

This village was probably built in late medieval times by a family whose surname was Papone or Paponi. These people  eventually ran away when the village was conquered by Porto Maurizio. Torre Papone was concerned by  the  same events as Boscomare with the Archbishop of Genoa and Lengueglia. Today it is a hamlet of Pietrabruna.

What to see

Torre Paponi is  an old medieval village  as its narrow  streets testify.

The parish church dedicated to SS Cosma and Damiano, in baroque style, was designed by Giacomo and Filippo Marvaldi and finished in 1734. In the interior there is a single nave with a series of lateral altars and a number of remarkable paintings, including a very old Madonna del Rosario and wooden statues of patron saints at the sides of the high altar.

The oratory is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and has a number of  wooden  high-backed chairs standing  in the original position all  along   the walls of the building.

The monument in memory of the  civilian victims  stands at the entrance of the village and was planned by the architect Papone Bartolomeo in 1984.

It consists of a cross with  arms stretching  towards  the four cardinal points and mounted on a bulky stone block which represents the Nazi cruelty.