At the beginning of 1884 Claude Monet came through and set to painting the castle and the bridge. The bridge is the one joining the two halves of the village: on one side the Terra, the old core beneath the castle, on the other the Borgo, born in the fifteenth century; linking them took a single arch of thirty-three metres.
The castle belonged to the Doria, who bought Dolceacqua between 1270 and 1276; on 27 July 1744 French and Spanish troops partly destroyed it. In the valley the taggiasca olive and the Rossese wine had been brought by the Benedictines, who kept a monastery here. The population is 1,990.
Castello dei Doria · chiesa di San Giorgio · chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate and 2 more
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Next up: Saint Anthony the Abbot and Ludovico Brea's polyptych, Sunday 17 January
Nearest airport: Genova, 115 km away
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📅 Every year, on 17 January
On 17 January Dolceacqua celebrates Saint Anthony the Abbot in the 15th-century church dedicated to him, at the foot of the Doria castle, which holds Ludovico Brea's polyptych of Saint Devota.
Castello dei Doria A ruin since 1745, its 12th-century round tower still standing above the Nervia valley 
chiesa di San Giorgio Carved tombs of Stefano and Giulio Doria in the crypt, under a half-Romanesque façade 
chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate Ludovico Brea's twelve-panel polyptych of Saint Devota, in Dolceacqua's parish church 
convento di Santa Maria della Mota Ruins of a Benedictine priory: a papal bull of 1151, then the Doria, then destruction in 1744. 
ponte medievale sul Nervia A single 33 metre arch over the Nervia, painted by Claude Monet in 1884. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Dolceacqua, but an easy day trip away.
