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The Visitation, patroness of a town with a church turned into a fortress

2 July 2027

Friday 2 July

Cipressa · Imperia · Liguria

July 2027Friday 2 July
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Cipressa celebrates the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2 July; her 17th-century Baroque parish church stands in the historic centre, while the hamlet of Lingueglietta holds the rare fortress-church of San Pietro, converted for defence against Barbary raids.

The patroness of Cipressa is the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated on 2 July. The parish church dedicated to her, in the historic centre of the town, was built in the 17th century in Baroque style with a single nave.

In the hamlet of Lingueglietta stands the fortress-church of San Pietro, the symbol-monument of the village: a rare example of a religious building from the mid-13th century converted into a fortress for defensive reasons, at the time of the Barbary raids that afflicted western Liguria around the mid-16th century. Also in Lingueglietta stands the parish church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, likewise from the 13th century, whose last left-side altar has held since 1762 the mortal remains of a saint, an object of particular local devotion.