Mongiardino Ligure: sights, history and trails

In Vergagni there was a castle (first half of the 14th century), of the Genoese family of Spinola. The castle remains a wall of about 50 meters long, where an ancient access mule track was passing. There are traces of bastions and a cistern for collecting rainwater, with plastered walls and barrel ceiling. He was part of the complex political system of imperial fiefs and from the end of the seventeenth century some portions of the fief passed to the Fieschi of the two lines of Crocefieschi and Savignone, received for inheritance by Tomasina Spinola. In fact the sons Innocent and Gerolamo Fieschi decide to divide, according to his mother Tomassina Spinola, the father's inheritance in 1687 including the share on Mongiardino, fief passed in inheritance by his grandfather Innocenzo Fieschi to their uncle Antonio Maria (-1720) with Cantalupo and Busalla, Vergagni for the quota c.d. de “The lake”. With act of 16 April 1687, rogato nel palazzo di Savignone dal notaio Pier Giuseppe Tagliavacca thus reparties the family heritage in three portions, creating the two marquisates of Savignone, held by Gerolamo and Croce, kept by Innocenzo and the quota of Mongiardino, given in usufrutto to the mother with Vobbia and Noceto. In 1735, due to intricate property in the area, Ettore (-1746) permutes his possessions of Mongiardino with the properties of Marquis Giovan Battista Rivarola. On the death of her husband Ettore (III), Maria Apollonia Spinola became regent of the fief on behalf of her younger son Augustine Innocent who then reigned until 1797. In 1863 the town of Mongiardino assumed the new name "Mongiardino Ligure".^[4]

In 1956 he lost the villages of Dova Superiore, Dova Inferiore and Guazzolo in the Gordenella valley, annexed to the municipality of Cabella Ligure.

The municipality is entirely included in the Borbera valley (in the Sisola and Gordenella valleys), while the hamlet of Salata Mongiardino is located in Vobbia valley.

Here are the fractions divided by valleys:

• Val Sisola: Borneto, Cabanin, Camincasca, Camere Nuove, Casa di Ragione, Castellaro, Castello, Casa Rossa, Cavanna, Costa Salata, Fubbiano, Ghiare, Lago Cerreto, Lago Patrono (communal seat), Maggiolo, Mandirola, Montemanno, Piansuola, Prato, Rovello inferiore, Rovello superiore, San Bartolomeo, San Lazzaro, San Lorenzo, Torre di Mandga
• val Gordenella: Canary Islands, Casalbusone, Cerendero, Correio, Gordena, Gorreto, Peio, Pian dei Berci
• Val Vobbia: Salata Mongiardino

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