Carrega Ligure: sights, history and trails

The municipality is located at the south-eastern end of the region on the Apennine Ligure, in the upper Borbera valley. It is one of the three common Piedmontese, with Fabbrica Curone And Cabella Ligure to border with the Emilia-Romagna Region, and the only one to confine both to Emilia-Romagna and Liguria.

With about 1.5 inhabitants/km2 it is one of the municipalities in Italy with less population density, the first among those not located on the Alps and many uninhabited fractions are situated in the small valley of the Campassi.

The parish church of San Giuliano was built around the 13th century, but several times restored. It has three aisles, it is decorated with fine stucco and preserves a remarkable marble altar.

The municipality was tied for centuries to trade along the way of salt and to Imperial Feudi, was indirectly linked to the Republic of Genoa for centuries. From 1797 to 1805 it became part of the Ligurian Republic, then of the Napoleonic Empire until 1814 and from 1815 to the Kingdom of Sardinia in the Division of Genoa and in Province of Novi. From 1859 he passed to province of Alessandria.

The Malaspina Fieschi Doria castle, of which few high ruins remain on the town, had the typical Ligurian shape of the castle built around a tower. The round tower is preserved surrounded by a circular wall with walking. Addited to the tower there is a rectangular body formed by two rooms, one of which still retains the ceiling.

Carrega Ligure took considerable importance during the Italian Resistance. A building of the commune, marked by a plate, was located in 1944-1945, of the Command of the VI Ligurian Partisan Zone and also hosted the components of several Allied English and American missions. The different fractions that make up the Municipality of Carrega Ligure were invested in that two years also by some Nazi-fascist rallies: for antipartisan operations, the Turkestan Division was mainly used (in German: Turkistanische Legion) of the Wehrmacht composed of former Soviet, Mongolian and Turkestan prisoners^[5] who heavily infiltrated the population with rubies, abuses and violence on women.

In the post-war period Carrega, which counted more than 2 000 inhabitants, suffered a rapid and unstoppable process of depopulation, mainly caused by the very reduced birth typical of Liguria and Piemonte. Sino was not connected to the valley floor by any road in 1963. The journeys took place on foot, back of mule crossing the river Carreghino several times, or with the Leaning, sleds pulled by oxen. The opening of the carriage road, paradoxically, accelerated the process of depopulation towards the cities typical of the period, as the territory was characterized by a peasant population and subsistence agriculture.

Only in recent years the municipality has experienced a small recovery, linked in particular to tourism, hiking and nature resources. However, with regard to resident citizens, the municipality has a population of about forty times lower than that which it had at the Unity of Italy.

Between 2008 and 2009, the municipality of Carrega Ligure started a project for sale of uninhabited or uninhabited houses at the symbolic price of a euro to create tourism in the country and in the future repopulate it, similarly to what happened in many other Italian countries (including Bussana Vecchia and Salemi). On 11 January 2009, the houses listed in collaboration with the University of Genoa were 720 and the requests accepted 400.^[6] In the following years, despite the success of the operation, the bureaucratic complexity and the fact that the legitimate owners were scattered around the world, made the administration from the project to exist,^[7] that you are then limited to reporting some sales ads on the institutional site.^[8][9]

In the municipality is home to the Museum of Popular Culture of Alta Val Borbera which exhibits about 500 tools, furniture and furnishings of various kinds, documenting the life and techniques of work of agriculture and breeding over the past centuries and aims to preserve the memory of agricultural techniques now completely abandoned.

Below is a table relating to the administrations that have succeeded one another in this municipality.

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  The tombstone dedicated to Anton Ukmar in Carrega Ligure, put by the ANPI section of Genoa
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  The church of San Giuliano
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  The monument to the fallen