Borghetto di Borbera: sights, history and trails

The coat of arms and gonfalone of the municipality of Borghetto di Borbera were granted by decree of the President of the Republic of 17 May 1986.^[7]

The gonfalone is a drape party of yellow and green.

Born as the church of Sant'Antonino, it became the church of St. Anthony. It is located just outside the village, in the direction Vignole Borbera. Of medieval origin, it was rebuilt and expanded in the '600; has a simple shape, with a hut facade surmounted by a fresco depicting the Madonna and Saint Anthony of Padua who intercedes for saint Rita. Above one of the two openings an epigraph dated 1681 is visible. The apse remains the medieval one from the 12th century.

Founded as an oratory of St. John the Baptist, it was then transformed into a church of San Vittore, after that the homonymous (which was located at the present cemetery) was demolished around the 1779. The ancient oratory remains traces of the outer masonry near the apse. The present church has simple forms; the façade is divided into hysenes, surmounted by a simple timpano and with a polybate oculo; it is completed by a bell tower with high modated cornices ending with an "onion" spire reminiscent of Ligurian churches. The interior is only one nave, very wide, decorated in 1931 by Clement Salsa; the altar dedicated to St. John the Baptist, of eighteenth century forms, was restored in the years '30. In the left head, placed in a niche there is the wooden statue dedicated to San Vittore, patron saint, while in the one on the right there is the sculptural group of Madonna of the Rosary, perhaps the work of Luigi Montecucco (1805-1877), pupil of Bartolomeo Carrea (1764-1839). The balustrade and the main altar are in inlaid marble from the Milanese school of the mid-18th century; the lectern and the kneeler are from the same period.

Only the bell tower and a small portion of the apse area are preserved from medieval origin. The rest was decorated by the '500 forward; the façade is very simple, with the hinges that frame a prospectus on which a wooden door is inserted 1896 and signed Giacomo Bagnasco. Note the Madonna with Child, a wooden work by the Turinese sculptor Vittorio Ferraro, of 1915.

Built in 1646, it preserves the processional crucifix of 1867, the fragment of the fresco Baptism of Jesus of 1661, the baptismal font of the eighteenth century and a crucified Christ, on the left of the main altar, of the fifteenth century.

The castle of Torre Ratti, subject in the past to numerous remodellings, today has assumed the appearance of a fortified residential residence with late-renaissance architectural features and Baroque. The two bodies that form the complex are structured with semi-trailers, once used as kitchens, noble floors for residential use and underground floors intended for military use.

Remains of the medieval castle adjacent to the monastery of the Benedictines located in Molo di Borbera.

At the end of Via Caminata there is the medieval gate, door to the castle which was located on the right bank of the Borbera river, long completely destroyed by the watershed of Borbera^[6].

• Loreggia, since 2001

Inhabitants registered^[10]

Below are the two largest groups of foreigners (at 31/12/2007):

Every year in the hamlet of Persi is held the exhibition of animals, vintage tractors, crafts and tastings of Fersê (pancakes) as part of the feast of Saint Joseph on the last Sunday of March.

In the hamlet of Castel Ratti, near the Borbera stream, every summer, the famous was held from 2000 to 2013 Borberock Summer Festival. It is a musical event dedicated to Italian underground rock music groups. Over the course of the editions, artists such as: Andrea Braido, The Fire, Stiliti, Ministri, 2Novembre, Passover, Viola Riot, Sintomi di Gioia, Hi Fevers, The Banshee, Cut of Mica, Gerson, Boogamen, Nadàr Solo, Piotta, Bud Spencer Blues Explosion, Ex-Otago and many others participated.^[11]