Colle Termini di Perinaldo (Poggio Castellaro)

On the western ridge of the Sanremo district, between Monte Caggio and Monte Bignone, a modest hill rises with steep cliffs to the south-west and gentler slopes to the north-east. This is the Colle Termini di Perinaldo, also known as Poggio Castellaro, a site that first drew archaeological attention in the early 1950s. The impetus was a very ancient place-name, “Castalare”, preserved in boundary documents from before the year 1000 and still alive in local dialect as “Castelà” when Ciasca and Peroni conducted their surveys.

On the north-eastern slope they noted a fairly regular heap of stones and earth, adjacent to a modern rainwater tank. It closely resembled a feature found on Monte Caggio, tentatively interpreted as a watchtower. Some thirty metres south-west of the narrow summit plateau, they found the remains of a rectangular structure, 11 by 4 metres, its long sides running parallel to the ridge. Two courses of dry-stone masonry were exposed, standing about 40 centimetres high.

Nino Lamboglia, however, urged caution in assigning these remains to antiquity.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.