The name comes from the water, and the water is still there: fourteen fountains at the street corners. Near the parish church there is a wood of beeches and chestnuts they call the Wood of the Fairies, with a slate-paved path on which are carved the verses Giorgio Caproni dedicated to this valley.
From those beech woods came a trade too: people gathered a fungus, Polyporus fomentarius, prepared it at home and sold it as tinder for lighting fires in the markets round about. The trade ended at the close of the nineteenth century, when the woods were cut down for charcoal. The population is 274.
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Next up: Saint Anthony, co-patron, and Giorgio Caproni's verses carved in the Fairy Wood, Sunday 17 January
Nearest airport: Genova, 40 km away
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📅 Every year, on 17 January
Fontanigorda celebrates Saint Anthony the Abbot on 17 January, in the church of Santi Antonio e Giacomo; next to the parish church lies the Bosco delle Fate, where a slate path bears the verses the poet Giorgio Caproni dedicated to the valley.
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Outside Fontanigorda, but an easy day trip away.
