Patron saint festival
Feast of the Madonna Addolorata
📅 Every year, on 17 September
On 17 September Frabosa Soprana celebrates the Madonna Addolorata; the village also has the Ecomuseum of Frabosa Marble.
Frabosa Soprana stands where the Maritime Alps begin, on the slopes of monte Moro, along the watershed between the Val Corsaglia and the Maudagna; the village joins an old core and the hamlet of Serro. It first appears in 1210, under the marquises of Saluzzo but in the diocese of Asti; in 1698 the Savoys made Soprana and Sottana draw the boundary, after years of quarrels.
In December 1877, at the Colla dei Termini, six olive-pickers died, five girls and a woman walking back from the Ligurian olive harvest to the hamlet of Fontane. A snowstorm caught them and help arrived too late; a panel on the pass recalls them.
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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