In a village of a few hundred people a family of painters was born: the Guido da Ranzo. In the church of San Pantaleo there is a polyptych by Giorgio Guido of 1554, in the oratory of the Vigne another of his of 1544, and at Bacelega paintings by his father Pietro are kept.
The ownership of the village, on the other hand, was a piece of geometry: in 1386 the doge of Genoa ruled that the Del Carretto should hold a quarter of Ranzo as their own and the other three quarters as a fief on behalf of the Republic. The people of Ranzo, for that matter, had gone in 1233 to found Pieve di Teco together with the others of the valley. The population is 556.
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📅 Every year, on 7 August
Ranzo celebrates Saint Donatus of Arezzo on 7 August; its Baroque church in the hamlet of Costa Parrocchia holds a Crucifixion by Orazio De Ferrari, while in the village the church of San Pantaleo houses a polyptych painted in 1554 by the local painter Giorgio Guido da Ranzo.
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Outside Ranzo, but an easy day trip away.
