In 117 BC the Roman Senate had to deal with a quarrel in a valley. The Ligurian Genuates and the Veiturii Langenses, who lived in the upper Val Polcevera, had been at odds for so long and so badly that a direct intervention from Rome was needed.
Thirty years earlier, in 148, the consul Spurius Postumius Albinus had taken the via Postumia through here, and the valley has remained a road: on 5 December 1583 Genoa opened the new carriageable route that climbed the Polcevera to the Bocchetta pass. The name Campomorone appears in a deed of 1163, for the sale of land to a Genoese consul. There are 7,306 residents.
Chiesa di San Bartolomeo · Palazzo Balbi
Pesto alla Genovese
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of September
On the first Sunday of September Campomorone celebrates the Madonna del Santo Amore; the main town has its parish in San Bernardo, while in Cravasco 18th-century war destroyed the Romanesque church.
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Outside Campomorone, but an easy day trip away.
