Patron saint festival In 35 days
Feast of Our Lady of Constantinople
📅 Every year, on 21 November
On 21 November Vaccarizzo Albanese celebrates its patron Our Lady of Constantinople, also known as the Madonna of the herdsmen.
The village came into being around 1470, when Albanian refugees, after the death of Skanderbeg and the Turkish advance, settled on these hills. For a long time they lived in huts of branches, and often burned them themselves so as not to be counted by the tax officers. Only in 1669, with the church of Santa Maria di Costantinopoli, did the first houses of stone appear.
On the main square stand two parish churches with the same name, one of the Greek-Byzantine rite and one of the Latin, with two baptismal fonts. The Arbëresh spoken here has kept old forms of the Tosk on which today's Albanian is built. The word «Albanese» was added to the village's name in the nineteenth century, to record where it had come from.
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 4.3 km Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 5.9 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 8.4 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 8.5 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 basilica di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Camogli · 9.1 km Camogli's parish church, gilded baroque inside, built on a rock beside the old harbour Museo marinaro di Camogli 📍 Camogli · 9.2 km Ship models, pilot books and relics of a village fleet, collected by Gio Bono Ferrari from 1937