Airole is a village built to order: in 1498 the parliament of Ventimiglia handed out land to thirteen heads of household from the surrounding villages so that they would put up houses there and come to live in them, with the obligation to sell only to local people. The last of the twenty-five lots was assigned in 1510.
Earlier still, the Carthusians of Pesio kept here the depot for the salt that passed between the coast and Piedmont; they sold it to Ventimiglia in 1435 for a hundred and fifty gold florins. In 1747 Franco-Spanish troops destroyed the sixteenth-century bridge over the Roia: the inhabitants rebuilt it themselves in 1754. The population is 461.
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Next up: Saints Philip and James, patrons of a church with frescoes by the Morgari brothers, Tuesday 11 May
Nearest airport: Genova, 118 km away
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📅 Every year, on 11 May
Airole celebrates Saints Philip and James on 11 May, in the Baroque parish church, given its present form in 1757-1759, which houses frescoes by the painters Carlo and Luigi Morgari and an 1837 organ by Carlo Giuliani.
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