In the Arene Candide cave they found the burial of the Young Prince, one of the oldest Palaeolithic tombs in Europe; the same cavern gave up a primitive cemetery with fifteen individuals. The finds are in the civic museum, inside the Santa Caterina convent at Finalborgo.
The name comes from the border: to the Romans this was Ad Fines, the point where the Ligurian Sabazi ended and the Ingauni began. Later Finalborgo was for six centuries the capital of the Marquisate of Finale, an independent state from 1162 to 1797, and it is now among the most beautiful villages in Italy. There are 11,724 residents.
caverna delle Arene Candide · basilica di San Biagio · Castel Gavone and 3 more
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📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Finale Ligure celebrates the Baptist, titular of its collegiate church. At the end of May the town has another feast all its own: the Festival of Restlessness.
caverna delle Arene Candide The cave of the Prince: 19 Palaeolithic burials, 90 metres above the sea at Finale Ligure. 
basilica di San Biagio The embroidered cloth on the high altar is not fabric: it is marble, 1799. 
Castel Gavone The Del Carretto ruins above Finalborgo, with the diamond-point facing of the Torre dei Diamanti. 
collegiata di San Giovanni Battista Seventeenth-century Baroque at Finale Marina: Barella's dome and the frescoes of Brusco 
Forte San Giovanni A fortress of 1642 above Finalborgo, grown around a fifteenth-century tower 
chiesa di San Lorenzo Restored from 1995 by helicopter, a first for Liguria, above the Baia dei Saraceni. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Finale Ligure, but an easy day trip away.
