Framura does not exist. The town is made up of a set of ancient villages of medieval origin on the border with the Cinque Terre. The urban transformations that have changed the face of Liguria since the 1950s have spared it and the houses, the streets, the locals, the "crêuze de mä", still retain the characteristics of a tradition that has often been lost elsewhere. is lost. In the sixties, the Red Houses were built in Framura, two groups of houses in a unique position, in an undeveloped stretch of coast, to the point of being mentioned in the Pilot Book of Liguria as a reference for navigation together with a tower from the Carolingian era. They were created by the architect Vico Magistretti, one of the most famous Italian designers active from the immediate post-war period up to the date of his death in 2006, demonstrating, like few others, a coherence and a design quality that does not show any failure in the transition between architectural design and industrial design.