At Accereto stands the father's house of Amadeo Peter Giannini, who in 1904 founded in California the Bank of Italy: the one that would become the Bank of America. Today it is a museum, with nineteenth-century furnishings and photographs of the emigration; on the last Sunday of June the village holds its Emigrant's Day.
In the nineteenth century the Cereghino, a family of ballad singers, fell out with the parish priest and turned Waldensian, taking half the village with them: in 1849 an evangelical church opened, the only one in the valley. Trials and prison followed, and a plaque of 1853 against 'the heresy'. On 20 January 2013 the bishop of Chiavari and the Waldensian delegate placed another beneath it, of reconciliation. The population is 504.
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of October
Favale di Malvaro celebrates Our Lady of the Rosary on the first Sunday of October, in the sanctuary that was once the church of San Vincenzo; in the hamlet of Accereto, a museum tells the story of emigration and of Amadeo Peter Giannini, founder of Bank of America.
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