The principal hamlet of Urbe, San Pietro d'Olba is a low-key mountain resort scattered along the Olba stream. The centre is a handful of stone houses around a parish church; the surrounding chestnut and beech forests are the real attraction.
In autumn the woods fill with mushroom pickers — the boletus harvest here is famous, and the trattorias in the hamlet build their menus around it. A reliable lunch stop on a drive over the Ligurian Apennines.