The name comes from the Latin apricus, open to the sun, and that is all you need to know about the position: the village lies stretched along a spur in the sunshine, below what was the castle of the counts of Ventimiglia, destroyed in 1480.
The curious thing is that the family is still here: on the ruins of the castle lives the marquis Luca Ferrero De Gubernatis Ventimiglia, who has also been mayor, and in the sixteenth-century palace a little further on a count of the same house. On 14 April 1800 the Austro-Russian troops of general Jablonoski burned the houses and turned on the inhabitants. The population is 346.
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Next up: Saint Paul, patron of a town that moved under the protection of a fortified manor, Tuesday 29 June
Nearest airport: Genova, 87 km away
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📅 Every year, on 29 June
Aurigo celebrates Saint Paul on 29 June, in the sanctuary church dedicated to him; the town's first settlement instead stood further uphill, near the sanctuary of Sant'Andrea, mentioned in a document from 1242, before moving under a defensive manor.
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Outside Aurigo, but an easy day trip away.
