Poffabro

Stone houses with wooden balconies, outside stairs and arches make up Poffabro, a hamlet at 525 metres in the Val Colvera that the painter Armando Pizzinato called the most inventive spontaneous architecture of the Pre-Alps. Its medieval name, Pratum Fabri, means the smiths' meadow, and at Christmas the whole village fills with nativity scenes.

Highlights

• Presepe tra i presepi: the village becomes an open-air nativity from mid-December
• The parish church of San Nicolò, built between 1860 and 1888
• The neoclassical sanctuary of the Beata Vergine della Salute at Pian delle Merie
• Scarpets, velvet slippers, alongside local wood and wicker crafts

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.