The patroness of Campo Ligure is Saint Mary Magdalene, celebrated on 22 July; the church dedicated to her stands on the provincial road to Genoa. The town's main parish, however, is the large church of the Nativity of Mary, built between 1758 and 1762 in place of an earlier 15th-century town church: it holds the rich 19th-century decoration by Francesco de Lorenzi and Luigi Gainotti, together with canvases by Bernardo Strozzi and Vittorio Amedeo Rapous, and the processional wooden statues of the Madonna del Rosario and Saint Mary Magdalene, the latter made by Ignazio Bettoni in 1877.
Campo Ligure, one of Italy's most beautiful villages, is protected on three sides by the Ponzema, Stura and Langassino streams and dominated by the Spinola castle, enlarged and fortified after the family's investiture in 1329 by Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria. The town is today a national centre for filigree work, an art to which the civic museum is dedicated, housed since 1984 in the former courthouse.
