In 1930, under the font of the parish church, a piece of a funerary stone of the first century BC came to light: a mother, Licinia, had it cut for her son Sufenas Agrippa, a Roman citizen of the same tribe as the people of Albenga. One woman's grief ended up holding up a baptismal font.
The name too is made of two ages: Villa is the Roman farm, Faraldi comes from the Lombard fara, the family group that settles in a place. At Riva Faraldi there is a church built between 1856 and 1881 to discharge a vow: in 1854 the cholera passed through Liguria and spared the village. The population is 437.
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📅 Every year, on 10 August
Villa Faraldi celebrates Saint Lawrence on 10 August, in the parish church of the main village, which holds a Roman funerary inscription from the 1st century BC, commissioned by a mother, Licinia, in memory of her son Sufenas Acrippa.
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Outside Villa Faraldi, but an easy day trip away.
