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Finalborgo is the walled medieval quarter of Finale Ligure<\/a>, on the Riviera di Ponente between Genoa and the French border. It sits about 2 km inland, where the Aquila and Pora streams meet and once served as a moat, and it is still enclosed by its 15th-century walls. For almost four centuries it was the capital of the Marquisate of Finale, the small state of the Del Carretto family. Today it is listed among the “Borghi pi\u00f9 belli d’Italia”, the most beautiful villages in Italy, and in 2021 it represented Liguria in the national “Borgo dei Borghi” TV contest, finishing eleventh.<\/p>\n

You can walk the whole village in a couple of hours: four gates, a basilica with an octagonal bell tower, a 14th-century convent with the archaeological museum, palaces with painted fa\u00e7ades and an early 19th-century theatre. Above the walls, the old Strada Beretta climbs to two castles, Castel San Giovanni and Castel Gavone, and on to the hamlet of Perti.<\/p>\n

Finalborgo also has a second life as the base camp for mountain bikers and climbers in the Finale area: in the evening you see more enduro bikes than cars in its squares. The sea is 20\u201330 minutes away on foot, or a few minutes by bus. For beaches, the seafront and Varigotti, see our guide to Finale Ligure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What to see in Finalborgo<\/h2>\n
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Everything inside the walls is a few minutes apart. Allow half a day for the village and museum, and another half day if you want to walk up to the castles. The centre is a limited traffic zone (ZTL): leave the car outside.<\/p>\n

The walls and the four gates<\/h3>\n
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The walls you see today were rebuilt in 1452 by Giovanni I Del Carretto, after the Genoese had destroyed them in the war of 1447\u20131450. Several semicircular towers survive along the circuit; the most impressive is on the south side. There are four main gates.<\/p>\n