Around 200 BC the Romans set up a small staging post here and called it Lucus Bormani, sacred clearing inside a wood. The wood was the one that ran from Capo Cervo to Capo Berta, and the god was Borman, lord of the waters: the local tribes feared him so much that they advised travellers not to go in.
Long before, between the eighteenth and the sixteenth century BC, there was already a coastal settlement of the Ligurian Ingauni here, of which cinerary urns remain; and on the slopes behind, stone tools of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers have been found. The amphorae recovered travelled from Marseille to southern Italy. There are 6,004 residents.
chiesa del Sacro Cuore · palazzo del Parco
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Next up: Our Lady of Mount Carmel, patroness of a town rebuilt after the 1887 earthquake, Friday 16 July
Nearest airport: Genova, 82 km away
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📅 Every year, on 16 July
Diano Marina celebrates Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 16 July; the area's first evangelisation is credited, according to some sources, to Saints Nazarius and Celsus around the 1st century, in the archaeological area of ancient Lucus Bormani, a town rebuilt after the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 1887.
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Outside Diano Marina, but an easy day trip away.
