In a municipality of four hundred people there are the remains of two castles, and they were built against each other: the Clavesana one at Castellaro, triangular, with its hexagonal tower twenty-five metres high made of river pebbles and blocks of Cisano stone; and the one Albenga raised at Curenna — castrum Cuculariae in the documents — precisely to stand up to the Clavesana in the valley.
Of the Albenga castle few ruins are left, but in the village there are still medieval tower-houses. Vendone lies on the slopes of Castell'Ermo, among olive groves and chestnut woods: the chestnuts here are of the roscetta and gabbiana varieties. The population is 403.
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📅 Every year, on 2 September
Vendone celebrates Saint Antoninus on 2 September; his parish church stands in the main village, while the village still holds several medieval tower-houses and, on the southern slope of Monte Peso Grande, the sanctuary of San Calocero.
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Outside Vendone, but an easy day trip away.
