Varigotti Events

No events calendar is published for Varigotti by the comune. The Comune di Finale Ligure publishes no festival programme for any of its nuclei or frazioni, and the tourism page it once maintained for Varigotti now returns an error.

The patronal day is 10 August. The patron of Varigotti is San Lorenzo. No programme, procession time or location is published for it in anything read for this page.

The dated events that affect Varigotti belong to the comune. Finale Ligure holds the 24-hour mountain-bike race on the Manie plateau on the last weekend of May, a round of the Enduro World Series in October, La Notte dei Tarocchi in Finalborgo on 12 and 13 August and Viaggio nel Medioevo there in the third week of August. All of them fill the comune's beds, Varigotti's included.

The one thing scheduled in Varigotti itself is a guided visit. The Museo Archeologico del Finale lists the promontory of Varigotti among the four sites of its MUDIF programme and publishes dates in its events calendar. Bookings are taken by telephone only, on 019 690020.

Verified against Comune di Finale Ligure, October 2026.

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Checked against Comune di Finale Ligure — The Comune di Finale Ligure has its seat at Via Pertica 29, 17024 Finale Ligure, with the switchboard 019 689011 and the certified address comunefinaleligure@legalmail.it. It publishes no direct telephone number and no opening hours for any individual office; no tourist office or IAT; no ZTL, parking scheme or transport timetable; and no opening hour or admission price for Castel Gavone, Castel San Giovanni, the Arene Candide cave, the basilica of San Giovanni Battista or any other building in the comune. (October 2026).
Checked against Museo Archeologico del Finale (MAF) / Museo Diffuso del Finale (MUDIF) — The MUDIF -- Museo Diffuso del Finale -- is a project that networks the diffused historical and landscape patrimony of the Finale territory, and lists the cultural sites it guides. Of the Caverna delle Arene Candide it says that it is one of the most important caves in Europe for the famous finds made inside it, and that through a route guided by archaeologists one makes a journey back in time, from today to about thirty thousand years ago, retracing the research conducted over more than 150 years of archaeological studies and excavations; "Accessibile esclusivamente con visita guidata. Prenotazione obbligatoria al numero 019 690 020". Of Castel Gavone it says that, placed on a height behind Finalborgo, it constitutes the symbol monument of the Finale; that the castle, arisen in the twelfth century, was the residential dwelling of the Del Carretto marquises; and that the visit, under the guidance of an archaeologist, allows one to discover the various phases of development of the monument between the Middle Ages and the Modern age, including the splendid Torre dei Diamanti, one of the most important examples of Renaissance fortified architecture in Italy; "Accessibile esclusivamente con visita guidata. Prenotazione obbligatoria al numero 019 690 020". The other two sites it lists are the promontory of Varigotti and the Teatro Aycardi at Finalborgo, built between 1804 and 1806 in the spaces of the pre-existing collegio founded by Giovanni Andrea Aycardi in 1759 and the oldest nineteenth-century theatre with stalls and boxes conserved in Liguria, entry to which is by free offering during calendared openings., The Museo Archeologico del Finale is at the Complesso Monumentale di Santa Caterina, Chiostri di Santa Caterina, snc, 17024 Finale Ligure (SV), Italy, with the telephone numbers +39 019 690020 and +39 351 730 6191 and the addresses info@museoarcheofinale.it and didattica@museoarcheofinale.it. Its opening hours are given as Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00-12:00 and 14:30-17:00, closed Monday. It describes itself as completely accessible, with a lift and facilitated routes for people with motor disabilities, the lift to the museum being in the second cloister with a video entryphone; all exhibition rooms are free of architectural barriers. It is the Finalese section of the Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri. (October 2026).