San Sebastiano Curone: sights, history and trails

In an ancient manuscript San Sebastiano Curone appears as "cella" dependent directly from the Abbey of San Colombano Bobbio.^[5]

Land of the fief of Fabbrica Curone, was first dominated by Malaspina and then from the Fieschi of Genoa. In the sixteenth century, under the jurisdiction of the Doria, thanks to its position along the way of the salt, crossed by the mule trackers who transported goods from Genoa to Milan and Piacenza (salt, anchovies under salt) and vice versa (cereal), it became an important shopping center with warehouses, inns and osteries, manoscals and sensali. From the ecclesiastical point of view the village depended on the Parish Church of Montacuto.

• The ancient village is characterized by narrow streets, characteristic squares and important buildings and dominated by the castle Giani, building in medieval forms, but renovated in the years '30 by Ulderico Giani.
• The Town Hall is located in a splendid Art Nouveau building by Lorenzo Bourges, called Palazzo Mazza Galanti.
• The parish church of San Sebastiano (1670) preserves a canvas attributed to the school of Genoese painter Domenico Fiasella, the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian of the second half of the seventeenth century. attributed to the Genoese painter Giovanni Raffaele Badaracco and the marble altarpiece in gold polychrome wood entitled la Crucifixion, created in the late sixteenth century by the German master Stefano Vil.
• Also interesting are the two speakers, called "reds" and "whites", with facades in baroque style. Of particular value the wooden sculpture polychrome Madonna Addolorata by Anton Maria Maragliano in Chiesa della Trinità (oratorio dei Rossi). In the highest square, Piazza Solferino, the imposing house of Prince Doria and the little church of Graces.
• The portals and stone gates, the oldest of which date back to the 15th and 16th centuries, belong to the strand of Genoese rustic architecture and contribute to creating the evocative atmosphere of the village.
• Recently opened thePainter Giani Archive, located in Piazza Roma by the artist himself, and thePiero Leddi archive, located in the house of Prince Doria, enhance the work of the aforementioned artists with exhibitions and events.
• The SMS room Stella d'Italia, historic seat of the annual National Truffle Fair, theater dating back to the beginning of the twentieth century and recently restored.
• In front of the schools stands the monument in memory of the partisan Franco Anselmi.

This country is part of the culturally homogeneous territory of Four Provinces (Alessandria, Genoa, Pavia, Piacenza), characterized by common habits and customs and by an important repertoire of music and dance very ancient. A prince instrument of this area is the Apennine piffer that accompanied by accordion, and once from the müsa (apennine clomuse), guides dances and animates parties.

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

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  Palazzo Mazza Galanti
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  Palazzo Pollini
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  The Church of the Graces
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  The Oratory of the Assumption