The name says two things: insula, because the village sits on a sort of islet between the Nervia and the Merdanzo, and bona, for the mild climate and for the way people passing through were treated. You go in over a late-medieval bridge of a single arch with a little shrine in the middle; in the first square there is an octagonal fountain of 1486.
Above the village stands the Doria castle, hexagonal, in sandstone, with a square tower full of loopholes. The earthquake of 1887 ruined it and restoration began only in 1989; today an international harp festival is held there in summer. The population is 678.
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Next up: Saint Mary Magdalene, patroness of a village that hosts an International Harp Festival, Thursday 22 July
Nearest airport: Genova, 113 km away
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📅 Every year, on 22 July
Isolabona celebrates Saint Mary Magdalene on 22 July; in the same month the town hosts the International Harp Festival at the Doria Castle and, at the end of July, a pallapugno tournament, called «balùn» in local dialect.
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Outside Isolabona, but an easy day trip away.
