Above the village, between nine hundred and fourteen hundred metres, lies the wood of Rezzo, which they also call the Wood of the Fairies: nearly six hundred hectares of coppice, the largest beech wood in Liguria. For centuries it gave firewood, charcoal, dry leaves and the fruits of the undergrowth.
Up there runs the pass of the Mezzaluna, which Italo Calvino names in The Path to the Spiders' Nests. The castle, on the other hand, is gone: in 1672 the Savoy regiment and three companies of Swiss soldiers took the village while the people barricaded themselves in the twelfth-century keep, and then they dismantled it. The population is 371.
Chiesa di San Martino
Pesto alla Genovese
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Next up: Saint Martin, patron of a village long contested by the marquises of Clavesana, Wednesday 11 November
Nearest airport: Genova, 88 km away
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📅 Every year, on 11 November
Rezzo celebrates Saint Martin on 11 November, with the 17th-century parish church dedicated to him; the village was long contested among the marquises of Clavesana, Ceva and the Del Carretto, until in the 15th century it returned under a single lordship.
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Outside Rezzo, but an easy day trip away.
