Patron saint festival In 300 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Cogoleto carries its crucifixes in procession for Saint Lawrence, and closes with fireworks over the sea.
The name comes from the stones. The beach was covered with cogoli, pebbles, to the point that no sand could be seen: «perhaps a unique case on the Ligurian shore», wrote Giovanni Battista Spotorno in 1819. Hence Cogoleto, and in Genoese Cogoeo.
It is not the only hypothesis. Some derive the name from Codoledo, which is also the form in which the place appears in the oldest parchment, that of 1023, and link it to the quince, which was much grown here; and some take it from a Greek-Latin formula meaning «at the head of the river», for the mouth of the Arrestra. There are 9,145 residents.
The Cogoleto guide
What to see 3
orto botanico di Villa Beuca · chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore · villa Bianchi
What to eat here 1
Pesto alla Genovese
Where to stay 24
24 places to stay · top rated: Casa Smeraldo 9.7 · Il Guscio di Jt 9.6
Events & festivals 1
Next up: Feast of Saint Lawrence, Tuesday 10 August
Getting there
Nearest airport: Genova, 15 km away
Tours, tickets and experiences
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What to see in Cogoleto
orto botanico di Villa Beuca Ten Ligurian plant habitats on a terrace above Cogoleto, tended by a social cooperative. 
chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore Two churches one inside the other: the old parish church came down only in 1878. 
villa Bianchi Eight bombs fell on the Bianchi family's villa at Isorella on 4 June 1944. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
Near Cogoleto
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Cogoleto, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.