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The Madonna del Carmine, patroness of a town with Western Europe's oldest copper mine

16 July 2027

Friday 16 July

Castiglione Chiavarese · Genoa · Liguria

July 2027Friday 16 July
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Castiglione Chiavarese celebrates the Madonna del Carmine on 16 July; on Monte Loreto, where the sanctuary of Our Lady of the same name also stands, lies the oldest copper archaeo-mining site in Western Europe, worked since the early 4th millennium BC.

The patroness of Castiglione Chiavarese is the Madonna del Carmine, celebrated on 16 July. The parish church of the main village is dedicated to Sant'Antonino the Martyr; raised to the title of provostry by the archbishop of Genoa, Cardinal Placido Maria Tadini, on 3 July 1834, it holds on its bell tower a chime of five bells, cast by the Francesco Picasso foundry of Recco in 1898.

In the hamlet of Masso stands the sanctuary of Our Lady of Loreto, on a hill overlooking a wide panorama of the Petronio valley: the first document attesting its presence dates from 1582, while the current structure is from the 19th century; the solemn celebrations in her honour are held every year on the third Sunday of May. In the same area of Monte Loreto lies the oldest copper archaeo-mining site in Western Europe, whose activity dates back to the early 4th millennium BC and continues with phases datable up to the 19th-century industrial era, when the Galleria XX Settembre was worked from 1855 to 1910: the museum complex today includes the archaeo-mining museum, the site with the prehistoric mine and the 19th-century one, partly open to visitors.

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