Moconesi is a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria. The head-hamlet of Moconesi municipality is the village of Ferrada which is located about 40 kilometres northeast of Genoa and 1 kilometre from the house in Terrarossa, reportedly place of birth of Christopher Columbus.Moconesi would mean casa di Mocco, the name of an ancient Roman legate found in the bronze tablet of Polcevera, an archeological finding of 1506 recording a sentence of the Roman Senate of 111 BC. This sentence concerned a territorial dispute of families in the Polcevera Valley of Northern Genoa). The actual territories of Ferrada di Moconesi and ...
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