Whoever is looking for a place of silence and peace cannot fail to visit Erbonne, a small town immersed in the silence of nature where time seems to have stopped.

The small locale at 945 metres of altitude guards thousands of years of history. Here many geometrically carved flint tools that date back to the start of the VI millennium BC and traces of bivouacs dating back to the Mesolithic era have been found, as well as fragments of ceramics that, together with the bronze axe, can be placed between the end of the Bronze Age and the VII century BC. The tomb that contains two small vases, a Roman coin and two small bronze rings can be attributed to the second Iron Age.

Its geographiclocation a few metres from the Swiss border also makes Erbonne a central character of more recent history. Today there is the “Small Smuggling Museum” in memory of the “casermatta” (small barracks) of the ItalianGuardia di Finanza (Finance Police) that was closed in November 1977 wherethe Finance Police carried out their anti-smuggling duties 24 hours a day from 1947.

A short distance away and can be reached in about twenty minutes by walking the easy path, there is the Scudellate, the Swiss localityin the Val di Muggio and the place of origin of the Erbonne’sonly nine inhabitants! The relationship between these two villages has always been very close. You only have to think that until 1918, the year in which Erbonne’s small cemetery was built, the coffins were carried on the shoulders through the woods to the cemetery of Scudellate and thenthe Church of the Sacred Heart was built in 1922.

The beauty of this smalltown will leave you speechless!

An appointment that is not to be missed is the villagefesta that is held on the first Sunday in August.