The name is water that boils. The torrent used to be called rio dei bogli, from the Latin bulliens, boiling, for the little waterfalls that make the pools foam along its course; another idea derives it from the Genoese bœggi, holes, for those same pools.
The bridge that crosses the stream almost at its mouth is called Roman. At the Nasoni site, at 750 metres on the slopes of Monte Cordona, digs in the 1980s found chipped stones of the Middle Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic, and finds of imperial date: the crossing from the Val Fontanabuona to the Riviera was already in use. There are 4,486 residents.
Chiesa di Santa Chiara
Pesto alla Genovese
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Next up: The Madonna del Carmine, patroness of a village with a medieval bridge called «Roman», Friday 16 July
Nearest airport: Genova, 19 km away
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📅 Every year, on 16 July
Bogliasco celebrates the Madonna del Carmine on 16 July; the village preserves a medieval bridge, popularly called «Roman», near the mouth of the Bogliasco stream, and the parish church of the Nativity of Mary Most Holy, of 13th-century origin.
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Outside Bogliasco, but an easy day trip away.
