A railway viaduct passes above Recco, and for its sake the town was wiped out. Between November 1943 and June 1944 the Allies bombed it twenty-seven times: 127 civilian dead and more than 90% of the houses destroyed.
It was rebuilt from nothing in the 1950s, on a human scale, but almost nothing of what stood before survives; for this it was given the gold medal for civil merit in 1992. On 8 September, for the Madonna, the sky over the Golfo Paradiso fills with fireworks. There are 10,106 residents.
Villa Tigellius · chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono · chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie
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📅 Every year, on 7 and 8 September
On 7 and 8 September Recco celebrates Our Lady of the Suffrage, la Suffragina, elected sole patroness in 1996 by a popular referendum; the sanctuary lights up for the Sagra del fuoco.
Villa Tigellius A mock castle of 1898 at Mulinetti, once a holiday home for Milan's schoolchildren. 
chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down 
chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Recco, but an easy day trip away.
