It was built by Pope Sixtus IV between 1481 and 1483 to house the tombs of his parents. The main facade is in Gothic style and overlooks the cloister of St. Francis's...
Overlooking Piazza Sisto IV, next to Town Hall, and is home to the oldest brotherhood of Savona (1260). Current building is eighteenth-century remake of the sixteenth...
The Cathedral of the Assumption is located in the heart of the historical center of the city. The first Cathedral, dating from the ninth century, was destroyed...
Church is divided into three naves and has a central octagonal dome and two smaller domes for side. Baroque facade dates from the first half of the eighteenth...
Giuliano Della Rovere relies on emphatic architectures by Giuliano da Sangallo for dwarfing the memory of the previous family pontiff. Palace was completed in the...
Also called "Campanassa", named after ancient bell, surrounded by the towers of Corsi and Riario (Guarnero) and Palazzo dell'Anziania.
Gavotti Palace is in historic center of Savona and is home of Civic Art Gallery. Palace was built in the seventeenth century on pre-existing Medieval structures. The...
According to popular tradition, the birth of Sanctuary is linked to an apparition of Madonna to a peasant in 1536. Original oratory was soon expanded into a major...
Convent was founded in 1539 on the site of a church dedicated to St. Joseph and enlarged in 1610. After Napoleonic suppression returned to Capuchins in 1894. The...