Here the climate was a cure. The village stands at two hundred and forty metres on a hill facing the sea, sheltered from the north wind, and at the beginning of the twentieth century a heliotherapy hospital was built here that was known throughout Italy for decades: people came to be cured by the sun.
From the highest point, where an old watchtower stands, on clear winter mornings you can see Corsica, the mountains of Tuscany and Provence as far as Cap Camarat. The name comes from the Raineri, the family that set up its holding here in the thirteenth century: Costa dei Raineri. The population is 803.
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Next up: Saint John the Baptist, patron of a town amid olive groves and ancient churches, Thursday 24 June
Nearest airport: Genova, 94 km away
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📅 Every year, on 24 June
Costarainera celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 24 June; its 18th-century parish church has an unusual elliptical shape, while the municipal territory also holds the 13th-century church of Sant'Antonio Abate and that of San Sebastiano, hidden among the olive trees.
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Outside Costarainera, but an easy day trip away.
