On 1 July 1584, 1,500 pirates arrived. Sori was sacked, destroyed and burned, and 134 people were carried away: against a force like that a town of sailors and fishermen could not hold. Saracen raids, in that century, were something you expected.
On Sori's origin the ideas are uncertain: some would have it Greek, founded around the seventh century BC by the same people who, in Ligurian territory, founded Marseille and Nice. The first documents are from 1143 and name the «Consuls of Sori»; from 1606 the town ended up in the capitaneato of Recco, joined to Pieve Ligure in the municipality of Pieve di Sori. There are 4,404 residents.
chiesa di Santa Margherita · santuario di Nostra Signora delle Grazie · viadotto Torrente Sori
Pesto alla Genovese
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Next up: Saint Gotthard, patron of a village on the Golfo Paradiso, Sunday 15 August
Nearest airport: Genova, 22 km away
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📅 Every year, on 15 August
Sori celebrates Saint Gotthard on 15 August; the parish church of Santa Margherita, in the main town, was built in the early 18th century to a design by Antonio Maria Ricca.
chiesa di Santa Margherita One of Liguria's finest Baroque bell towers, above a parish church rebuilt in the early Settecento. 
santuario di Nostra Signora delle Grazie A Black Madonna bought in the East, found back on Sori's beach after a pirate raid. 
viadotto Torrente Sori 105 metres above the valley: the Dywidag cantilever system made its Italian debut here in 1966. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Sori, but an easy day trip away.
