Nozarego

Nozarego is a village in the commune of Santa Margherita Ligure in Liguria, Italy.[1][2] It is a natural terrace over the Bay of Tigullio. Here there is the church of Santa Maria Assunta with a cobbled square in typical Ligurian style. From Nozarego, there are also several trails leading to the park of Portofino.[3][4][5] Nozarego is located on a small road which runs between 2 areas of Santa Margherita. There's a much smaller slip road which comes from outside Nozarego and runs into it as well although there's no link between the 2 streets in Nozarego itself.[1][2]

Nozarego
Village
Nozarego as viewed from the North
Coordinates: 51.109222793257°N 2.3656290268385°W / 51.109222793257; -2.3656290268385
CountryItaly
RegionLiguria
ProvinceGenoa
ComuneSanta Margherita Ligure
Elevation
151 m (495 ft)
Population
 • Total22
Area code(s)0185
Santa Margherita itself viewed from Nozarego

As of 2001 Nozarego has 22 inhabitants.[6]

Geography

Nozarego is approximately 151 metres above sea level and is about halfway up the mountain peaks which surround it. These are Monte Brano at 312 metres, slightly south of Nozarego an to the west of that, Monte Croci di Nozarego elevated at 391 metres above sea level.

Streams

No streams or Brooks pass directly through Nozarego although some come close running through channels by the nearby peaks. There are some unnamed brooks which rune from Monte Brano down towards Paraggi. Additionally some small brooks run from Croci di Nozarego merging with each other into one river, Torrenta Marta. South of Torrenta Marta there's another named stream, which also flows into Torrenta Marta. Finally some 2 small brooks flow down from Nozarego, flowing north through Montebello and ending around the harbour in Santa Margherita.[2]

Roads and trails

Nozarego is located in a tourstic are with many different hiking and walking trails running through the hills and mountains intersecting with the village. This includes the small road which runs into the town serving a church before becoming a mere path.[1] There are paths heading north following the route of the small brook into Santa Margherita as well as another running more westerly to a different part of the town. Other trails run south towards the coast through places such as Mulini, Il Frata, Paraggi, and even down to Prato and Il Casone half way to San Fruttoso.[2]

History

Nozarego almost followed the historical vicissitudes of today's municipal capital. Already included in the Capitaneato of Rapallo from 1608, within the Republic of Genoa, with the advent of the Napoleonic domination of the late eighteenth century (Ligurian Republic) the locality became a simple municipality - from 1798 to 1799 - of the fourth canton of San Giacomo della Court.

The municipality of Nozarego was then suppressed and incorporated into that of San Giacomo which, with the First French Empire, starting from 1812 went to constitute - together with Santa Margherita - the municipality of Porto Napoleone.

With the Kingdom of Sardinia the name changed to Santa Margherita di Rapallo and today's Santa Margherita Ligure (1864) with Nozarego to the status of a hamlet together with Paraggi and San Lorenzo della Costa.

Monuments and buildings

Religious Architecture

Parish church of Santa Maria Assunta - sanctuary of Nostra Signora del Carmine. As well as the church of San Giacomo di Corte, the parish church of Nozarego was once subjected to the Colombanian abbey of San Fruttuoso. Therefore, the same historical-religious events of the community of Corte followed.

The original church was founded before the year 1000 by the Benedictine monks of the abbey of San Fruttuoso who dedicated it to the Assumption. The parish was then subject to the jurisdiction of the abbot of the Camoglian abbey; this property was established by Pope Innocent II in 1130 and confirmed by Pope Alexander III in 1164.

Pope Julius III, through a special papal decree dated 8th March 1550, granted it in commendation to the admiral of Oneglia Andrea Doria - together with the parish communities of Divo Martino di Portofino and San Giacomo di Corte - and to his heirs. It was in 1602 that the religious cult towards the Madonna del Carmine was spread by the new owners of the church, the Carmelites.

The patronage of the Doria family was abolished on January 24, 1885 by decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Council, establishing the passage of the parish to the archdiocese of Genoa. Constituted the diocese of Chiavari in 1892 passed, along with other parishes of Tigullio, the latter.

Provostery since 1919, it was erected to diocesan sanctuary on November 1, 1947.

Church of Our Lady of Suffrage is the first place of worship in the hamlet, the first news about the church dates back to 2 July 1413[9] with the election of the parish priest Don Bartolomeo Guarello. With the building of the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta, the annexed Suffrage church became a subsidiary church. The structure consists of a single rectangular hall, without decorations or pictorial representations, leaning against the main body of the parish church of Nozarego.

There are many small chapels and other religious buildings in the area around Nozarego on many of the small paths within the mountains.[2]

Other buildings

Directly opposite to the church there's a small eatery, the only other building in Nozarego that's not residential.

Transportation

On top of the road access to the rest of Santa Margherita in the form of Villa Partigiano Berto Solimano, Nozarego has one bus stop which is served by the local bus route 877.[1][2]

References
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  2. "Node: ‪Nozarego (253070068)". OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  3. B., A. F.; Colombo, Ezio (1906). "La Republica Argentina, nelle sue Fasi Storiche e nelle sue attuali Condizioni Geografiche, Statistiche ed Economiche". Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. 38 (3): 207. doi:10.2307/197928. ISSN 0190-5929.
  4. "N.F.R. Delia Croce, editor. Symposium: Mediterranean Seas 2000 (Held in Santa Margherita Ligure, 23–27 September 1991). 489p. Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy: Instituto Scienze Ambientali Marine, 1993. Price $10.00". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 73 (4): 986–986. November 1993. doi:10.1017/s0025315400034937. ISSN 0025-3154.
  5. "Cerca risultati per "Nozarego" | Comune di Santa Margherita Ligure". comunesml.it. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  6. "dawinciMD - Consultazione dati del 14° Censimento Generale della Popolazione e delle Abitazioni". dawinci.istat.it. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
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