Lavagna

Lavagna is a metropolis inside the curving stretch of the Italian Riviera di Levante, known as the Gulf of Tigullio, in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in Liguria. The borgo of Lavagna changed into an critical Ligurian cultural center inside the middle Ages. Today its long immediately seaside is a summer season hotel. Lavagna developed in Roman times as Lavania. According to a few historians, it changed into seat of a countship for the reason that Carolingian times. From 1198 it become a fief of the Fieschi family, who used Lavagna as their stronghold in the severa internal struggles of the Republic of Genoa. In 1564 it changed into sacked through the Muslim pirate Occhiali, a renegade Christian, who became appointed pasha of Algiers four years later.

From 1815 it become a part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and, later, of the Kingdom of Italy. A colorful cortege thru the streets reunites the inhabitants of the six medieval quarters of Lavagna, as the huge cake is distributed among the ones inside the crowd who've observed the matching half in their tickets. The function shale that gives roofing slates in Liguria become traditionally quarried in the Capenardo and S. Giacomo mountains close by.