At Zoagli they weave silk, and its fabrics are still sold half across the world. The coat of arms carries two colours, blue and yellow: those of the village's two largest confraternities, the sailors' and the weavers'. The cliff walk, instead, was paid for by the inhabitants in the nineteen-thirties.
On the morning of 27 December 1943 an allied air formation aimed at the railway bridge and all but levelled the village: town hall, parish church, hospital, many houses, and a number of dead. The square before the rebuilt town hall bears the name of that date. From the hills starts the path of the five bell towers, twelve kilometres among the hamlets' old churches. The population is 2,516.
castello Sem Benelli · chiesa di San Pantaleo · chiesa di San Pietro and 2 more
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Next up: Saint Martin and the panel that returned from Genoa, Wednesday 11 November
Nearest airport: Genova, 35 km away
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📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Zoagli celebrates Saint Martin; the 18th-century parish church holds a small wooden panel of the Madonna and Child, once venerated in Genoa.
castello Sem Benelli The castle Sem Benelli built in 1914 with the royalties from his own plays 
chiesa di San Pantaleo Romanesque, twelfth century, and the glass of the Pius VII legend 
chiesa di San Pietro Baroque above medieval foundations, with a Roman cinerary urn of the 1st century 
chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio Lightning wrecked the organ in 1895; the frescoed ceiling above Zoagli came out of it. 
torre di Levante One of the two Saracen towers on Zoagli's arms, raised by Genoa against pirate raids. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Zoagli, but an easy day trip away.
