Continuing on the main way, with sight on Civezza’s village that dominates hurling himself to the sky, and reaching after about an hour of walking near the oratory of San Salvatore, according to legend, seat of the first inhabited center, where let’s meet the provincial road. Cross the paved road after 50 meters, on the right, adn finally found a stony mule track that, as other mountain routes, traces the ancient pilgrimage road called “Via della Costa” and it is indicated by a trail sign with the image of a shell (now replaced in many places by a signpost reading “Sentiero Liguria“).
The mule track climbs up to the down–village of Civezza and, through an underground gallery, until the majestic Piazza San Marco, where stands up one of the most evocative and impressive complexes religious Baroque of the zone and of the Far Western Liguria, where took place the parish church, dedicated to the Saint Evangelist Mark, and the adjacent oratory of San Giovanni (mid–second half of the century XVIII).
From here, following the trail marker, let’s take the long “carugio dritu” (Via Dante) that, as a plug, crosses the heart of the historic center offering the view on a compact curtain of medieval row houses and some small and panoramic little squares (as Piazza Marconi and Piazza Carducci), and ending in Piazza Venezia, where resists perfectly preserved one of the “five towers” that marked the village between fourth and fifth centuries, the tower-house “del Rivello” (or of “the Swisses”) .
Reached at this point, it is possible going over toward an interesting ring route that crosses olive groves and woods or, alternatively, pointing toward the middle and upper valley, toward Torre Paponi–Lingueglietta or Boscomare-Pietrabruna.
