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How to get there: Highway A12 Genoa-Rosignano, exit Carrodano.
A beautiful road crosses the entire Val di Vara and you can travel along the green valley of the Riccò Torrent up to the mouth of the river.
The difficult Bracco pass was traveled by patient truck drivers during the first years after WWII.
The pass has a rich plant life and here you will find Carrodano Inferiore and Carrodano Superiore.
It has pre-Roman origins and it was the land of Liguri and Galli that escaped the raids in the first years before Christ.
The agglomerates had a linear structure in the more strategical defensive areas. Carro-Dunum, which was the actual place-name is located on the slopes of Mount St. Nicolao and it continues along the valley of the Malacqua Torrent.
It was a Malaspina feud and in 1168 it became the domain of the noble Da Passano family that gave it to the Genovese in 1229.
The artistic patrimony of Carrodano can be admired in its rural environment that is distributed among green woods that is extremely tempting for mountain-bike, cross-country, and horse back riding lovers.
Magnificent and interesting roads capture tourists in the fantastic paths of the “Zona Margine” of the beautiful Bracco-Mesco Park.
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