14 Sights in Savona, Italy (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Savona, Italy. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 14 sights are available in Savona, Italy.
Sightseeing Tours in Savona1. Chiesa di Santo Spirito
The Church of the Holy Spirit is a medieval religious building located in the Zinola district of the city of Savona. It was founded around the year 1300 (?), with the function of a monastery, by the Benedictine monks of the monastery of Sant'Eugenio on the island of Bergeggi, on which it depended from the tenth century. The property, together with Bergeggi and others, was part of the various possessions and fiefdoms dependent on the abbey of Lérins, on the Provençal island opposite Cannes.
2. Cappelletta di Legino
The chapel of St. Christopher, built in 1700, is located in the Legino district of the city of Savona. Once the surrounding area was surrounded by vegetable gardens, meadows and a few mule tracks, today it is surrounded by a road with strong vehicular traffic and in the center of a large circular traffic roundabout, which connects the center and the commercial port area to the motorway exit and the entrance to the Legino district.
3. Casa di Colombo
During his life Christopher Columbus lived in numerous houses often changing residences, in his youth due to the movements of his father Domenico Colombo, he lived between his native Genoa, Savona and Cogoleto, while in adulthood Columbus divided himself between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Americas and finally back to Spain where he died in Valladolid.
4. Chiesa di Santo Spirito e Concezione
The Church of the Holy Spirit and Conception is the parish church of the Zinola district of the city of Savona. It is located in the center of the village at the junction between the main road via Aurelia that connects Vado Ligure to Savona and via Quiliano for the connection to the nineteenth-century cemetery and then to Quiliano
5. Chiesa di Sant'Anna
The church of Sant'Anna is a place of Catholic worship located in the hamlet of Cadibona, along the state road 29 of the Colle di Cadibona, in the municipality of Quiliano in the province of Savona. The church is home to the parish of the same name as part of the Vicariate of Savona of the diocese of Savona-Noli.
6. Duomo di Savona
The cathedral of Savona, also known by its official name of the Cathedral Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, is the main place of Catholic worship in Savona, the mother church of the diocese of Savona-Noli. It is located in the heart of the historic center of the city, not far from the Sistine Chapel.
7. Chiesa San Giacomo (rudere)
The former church of San Giacomo with adjoining convent, also known as the complex of San Giacomo, are a set of religious buildings, now used for civil use, which stand on the hill of the same name overlooking the center and the port of the city of Savona.
8. Nostra Signora del Monte
The church of the Madonna del Monte is a religious building located on a hill behind the Savona-Vado motorway exit. Ecclesiastically it depends on the parish of Zinola. The religious building is owned by the Confraternity of S. Ambrogio di Legino.
9. San Giovanni Battista in San Domenico
The church of San Giovanni Battista in San Domenico is located on the edge of the historic center of Savona, at the intersection of the main nineteenth-century artery and what had been the pivotal road axis of the medieval historic center.
Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista in San Domenico (IT)
10. Chiesa di Santa Lucia
The church of Santa Lucia is a small religious building that stands in Savona, on a spur of rock once overlooking the sea, along the old road connecting with Albissola Marina. The Confraternity of Saints Augustine and Monica resides here.
11. Santa Maria Ausiliatrice
The church of Mary Help of Christians is located in Savona, in Via San Giovanni Bosco, outside the historic city center, in an urban area developed between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.
12. Oratorio del Cristo Risorto
The Oratory of the Risen Christ is home to one of the oldest confraternities in Savona and is located in the historic center near the intersection of the medieval Via Pia and the nineteenth-century Via Paleocapa.
13. Torretta
The Leon Pancaldo Tower or Quarda Tower, commonly called "Torretta", is a medieval building located on the port of Savona, at the entrance to the central Via Paleocapa, and is considered the symbol of the city.
14. Chiesa dei Santi Lorenzo, Biagio e Donato
The church of Lorenzo, Biagio and Donato is a small religious building that stands in Savona on a hill that once dominated the Letimbro valley and is now surrounded by the working-class district of Villapiana.
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