The Tigulli tribe settled in the land from Portofino and Punta Mesco (Moneglia area). It seems also that the Lapicini ("people who live in a rocky land") lived nearby Sestri Levante. These proud tribes who settled in that poor region between the mountains and the sea, where nomadic people, they didn’t live in towns, but in lonely farm houses built with stones. They built also some fortifications (castellari) to defend themselves from the enemy attack. In the years from 237 to 180 b.C. they were defeated several times from the Romans who worked hard to subdue them. After that the Romans built a road between Rome and the Gallie called Via Aurelia. Some ruins of that road still exist near Moneglia (at Bracco hamlet). During the age of Cesare Augusto (14 a.C.) Moneglia was a part of the IX REGIO and was mentioned in the Empire headquarters paper (Vatican Museum).Lemeglio, a Moneglia hamlet, is named in the "tabula alimentaria", founded in 1747 in the town of Piacenza area. With this tabula, Traiano emperor, who died in 117 a.C., gave to Velleia orphans money, town and hamlets among which Lemmelius ("where there is a mile"). Later on Moneglia - Ad Monilia, that means way toward "pagus Monilia", is mentioned - during the kingdom of Teodosio I (346 - 395 a.c.) in the roadmap Tabula Peutingeriana, kept by the national library of Vienna. This "tabula" can be considered a roadmap of Roman Empire; it represents the world known at that time and takes its name from the antiquarian Augsburg K. Peutinger (1465 - 1547). Tratti da www.moneglia.com/storia.htm
