On 22 May 1557 the Barbary pirates came into the village: they burned the houses, killed seven or eight people and carried twenty-five away. Of one of them a letter survives, dated 20 July 1564: it was written by Giacomo Filippo, of Pompeiana, a slave in Algiers together with his children and his grand-daughters.
Against those raids the two sixteenth-century towers were built: the round one, called dei Panei, now holds a small ethnographic museum open in summer. The village's name, on the other hand, comes from a Roman farm, the Fundus Pompeiani. The population is 809.
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Next up: Saint Mary Magdalene and the Assumption, patrons of a town passed to the Spinola marquises, Thursday 22 July
Nearest airport: Genova, 97 km away
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📅 Every year, on 22 July and 15 August
Pompeiana celebrates Saint Mary Magdalene on 22 July and Our Lady of the Assumption on 15 August; in 1472 rights over the town passed to the Spinola marquises of the San Luca branch, who governed it on behalf of the Republic of Genoa.
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Outside Pompeiana, but an easy day trip away.
