Patron saint festival
Feast of the Madonna di Serra
📅 Every year, on 18 September
On 18 September San Paolo Solbrito celebrates the Madonna di Serra; the village preserves the sanctuary dedicated to her.
The comune was born in 1928, when a royal decree joined San Paolo della Valle and Solbrito. The two villages appear together in a document of 948, an exchange that gave Bruningo, bishop of Asti, land there. They stood in the Traversola valley, then climbed the hills for safety, and two castles went up. Of Solbrito's a restored fragment survives; of San Paolo's, nothing.
Valossera comes from Valle delle Ossa, the valley of bones: tradition tells of a Saracen column lured into a wooded gully and wiped out, and of bones surfacing in the ploughed fields. The parish church of Santi Pietro e Paolo is late baroque, frescoed inside and hung with seventeenth-century canvases.
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 4.3 km Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 5.9 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 8.4 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 8.5 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 basilica di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Camogli · 9.1 km Camogli's parish church, gilded baroque inside, built on a rock beside the old harbour Museo marinaro di Camogli 📍 Camogli · 9.2 km Ship models, pilot books and relics of a village fleet, collected by Gio Bono Ferrari from 1937