A votive shrine above a slate portal in Lavagna.
A tradition in my area (but I think it is common to all seaside places) is to place a small shrine with a Madonna or a saint on the facades or entrances of houses.
Both to protect the house and those who live there.
This shrine and the door below are in the alley of Lavagna and the peculiarity (which in the area is not even that much) is the beautiful frame of black slate (also called blackboard) the famous stone quarried in the hinterland of the town.
There is also a beautiful path, the one that women used to take to carry the slabs of this stone towards the sea, passable and starting from the Basilica dei Fieschi in Cogorno (here the post).
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Photo taken with Canon EOS M100 and lens Canon EF-M 11-22.
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I refer you to the Lavagna tourist promotion website: lavagnaturismo.it. This is the official website of the town's municipality: comune.lavagna.ge.it.
If you are looking for a nice portal that talks about all of Liguria I invite you to visit the official website of the Region: lamialiguria.it.
If you are looking for some books about the beautiful town of Lavagna I recommend: Intra Siestri e Chiaveri: Adriano V dei Fieschi tra storia e finzione and I Fieschi. Storia di una famiglia. If instead you want to have a guide that talks about Liguria and Tigullio I invite you to see: Genova e il Tigullio by Lonely Planet.
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