{{Infobox frazione | name = Calvisio | native_name = | image_skyline = Calvisio panorama.png | image_caption = Panoramic view | image_map = | map_caption = | coordinates = {{coord|44|10|54.4|N|8|21|6.87|E|type:city|display=inline,title}} | region = {{flag|Liguria}} | province = Savona (SV) | comune = Finale Ligure | elevation_footnotes = <ref name=lig>''Limiti Amministrativi (Comunali, Provinciali, Regionali) sc. 1:25000 - ed. 2011''; Regione Liguria, on-line map on [http://geoportale.regione.liguria.it//geoviewer/pages/apps/repertorio/repertorio.html?id=637 geoportale.regione.liguria.it].</ref> | elevation_m = 21 | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | population_footnotes = | population_total = | population_as_of = | pop_density_footnotes = | gentilic = | saint = | day = | postal_code = 17024 | area_code = (+39) 019 | website = | footnotes = }} '''Calvisio''' is a ''frazione'' (and parish) of the municipality of Finale Ligure, in Liguria, northern Italy.
==Geography== thumb|left|160px|Lacrêma bell tower [[File:Calvisio lapide caduti II guerra mondiale.png|thumb|160px|left|upright|World War II memorial.]] Present-day Calvisio is located near the Sciusa, mainly on the right banks of the stream. There also stands the parish church, built in a neo-Middle Ages style. On monte Tolla slopes,<ref name=IGM>Carta 1:25.00, ''Istituto Geografico Militare'' (on-line:[http://www.pcn.minambiente.it/viewer/ www.pcn.minambiente.it] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208113946/http://www.pcn.minambiente.it/viewer/ |date=2015-02-08 }})</ref> also on the right side of Sciusa Valley but at an elevation of 120 m, is located ''Lacrêma'', the oldest part of the village, also known as ''Calvisio Vecchio'' (literally ''Old Calvisio'').<ref name="IGM" />
== History == Calvisio area was inhabited by Ligures as confirmed by remains as an ellipse-shaped field encircled by menhirs named ''Pratorotondo'' (''round meadow'').
During the Roman Age the Sciusa Valley was crossed by ''Via Julia Augusta'' and maybe some of the stones of that ancient highway were recycled in oldest buildings of the village. Saint Cipriano church was promoted to parish church before 1356.<ref>{{cite book | author = AA..VV.. | title = Grande regesto delle chiese italiane: La Diocesi di Savona-Noli | publisher = Chiesa oggi | year = 2001 }}</ref>
Calvisio was a separate comune (municipality) until 1868 when, with Varigotti (which also was an autonomous municipality) requested and obtained to be joined with Final Pia. At the time Calvisio had around 500 inhabitants.<ref>{{cite book | first =Nicolò Cesare | last=Garoni | title = Codice della Liguria diplomatico storico e giuridico| publisher= Tipografia del r.i. de' sordo-muti | location = Genova | year = 1870 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Gz24fgj-gs8C&q=calvisio+comune+final+pia | access-date = 2016-06-14 }}</ref>
It later followed the destiny of Final Pia, which in 1927 was joined to Finale Marina e Finalborgo giving the present-day municipality of Finale Ligure.
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== Bibliography == {{Portal|Italy}} * {{cite book | first =Jacopo | last =Virgilio | title = Sulla aggregazione dei comuni di Calvisio, Finalpia e Varigotti ala Città di Finalmarina: osservazioni | publisher = Tip.del commercio | location = Genova | year = 1869 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_VsvAAAAYAAJ | access-date = 2016-06-07 }} {{Commons category-inline|Calvisio}}
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Category:Frazioni of the Province of Savona Category:Former municipalities of the Province of Savona