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Chapel for the Fallen of Balconia

Chapel for the Fallen of Balconia

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Chapel for the Fallen of Balconia

Name: Chapel for the Fallen of Balconia
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This Highlight is in a protected area

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Location: Borzonasca, Genoa, Liguria, Italy

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Frullo

June 21, 2025

The chapel near the Aiona-Pratomollo Refuge, dedicated to the Fallen of the "Balconia", commemorates a tragic period of the Second World War. "Balconia" is not a place, but the symbolic name given to a series of ferocious Nazi-Fascist roundups and massacres that struck the Ligurian Apennines between 1944 and 1945.

This mountain area, a true "balcony" over the valleys, was strategic for the Resistance. The harsh German and Fascist repression aimed to annihilate the partisans and terrorize the civilian population that supported them, causing countless victims. The term "Balconia" thus became the dramatic synthesis of those sacrifices, a way to give a collective name to the pain and heroism of those who fought for freedom in those heights. The chapel is a monument to the memory of all of them. A touch of life and care: at the bottom of the left wall, a small fountain offers refreshment (especially in the summer months) and allows you to water the flowering plants that adorn the chapel, with the bottles made available.

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Location: Borzonasca, Genoa, Liguria, Italy

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