The name comes from Burgum Macri, the new village that grew in the fifteenth century at the foot of the castle of the counts of Ventimiglia. In 1455 count Gaspare sold the whole valley of the Maro to the Lascaris of Tenda for 8,600 Genoese lire: an entire fief, with its churches and its pastures, changing hands by a deed signed at Tenda.
In 1625, in the war between Savoy and Genoa, the villagers too shut themselves in the castle: it fell after a few days and eighty Savoy soldiers were captured with their commander. The village you see today owes much to the earthquake of 1887, which took no lives here but rebuilt the houses. The population is 873.
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Next up: Saint Anthony the Abbot, patron, and the parish church's 16th-century polyptych, Sunday 17 January
Nearest airport: Genova, 86 km away
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📅 Every year, on 17 January
Borgomaro celebrates Saint Anthony the Abbot on 17 January, in the parish church of 15th-century origin, rebuilt in Baroque style in the 18th century, which preserves a 1551 polyptych depicting Saints Nazarius and Celsus, attributed to Raffaele De Rossi.
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Outside Borgomaro, but an easy day trip away.
