Pesto alla Genovese basil, garlic, pine nuts, pecorino and oil pounded in a mortar
Basil, garlic, pine nuts, pecorino and oil, pounded in a marble mortar: the sauce that has had a written recipe since 1863, born in Genoa.
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Savona has an unusually crowded set of neighbours for such a thin province. To the north it meets three Piedmontese provinces, Cuneo, Asti and Alessandria; Imperia lies west, Genoa east, and the Ligurian Sea closes it off to the south. The result is a narrow band of coast that climbs within a few kilometres into the valleys leading inland, and whose 69 municipalities range from seaside resorts to villages of a few hundred people.
Most visitors stay on the water, with reason: Alassio, Finale Ligure, Varazze near the Genoese border, and Albenga, the second largest town in the province after Savona itself. The provincial capital gets skipped too often. It is a working port full of offices, but the old centre holds up. Head inland towards Cairo Montenotte and a different Liguria begins, one with no sea view and far fewer people looking at it.
Towns in the province of Savona
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69 towns
Alassio Albenga Albisola Superiore Albissola Marina Altare Andora Arnasco Balestrino Bardineto Bergeggi Boissano Borghetto Santo Spirito Borgio Verezzi Bormida Cairo Montenotte Calice Ligure Calizzano Carcare Casanova Lerrone Castelbianco Castelvecchio di Rocca Barbena Celle Ligure Cengio Ceriale Cisano sul Neva Cosseria Dego Erli Finale Ligure Garlenda Giustenice Giusvalla Laigueglia Loano Magliolo Mallare Massimino Millesimo Mioglia Murialdo Nasino Noli Onzo Orco Feglino Ortovero Osiglia Pallare Piana Crixia Pietra Ligure Plodio Pontinvrea Quiliano Rialto Roccavignale Sassello Savona Capital Spotorno Stella Stellanello Testico Toirano Tovo San Giacomo Urbe Vado Ligure Varazze Vendone Vezzi Portio Villanova d'Albenga Zuccarello
The top 20 places in Savona
Our editors' ranking: the area's most important places, drawn from the individual town guides. See the national rankings →
1 🌋 Nature & views caverna delle Arene Candide 📍 Finale Ligure The cave of the Prince: 19 Palaeolithic burials, 90 metres above the sea at Finale Ligure. 
2 🌋 Nature & views grotte di Toirano 📍 Toirano Footprints 12,000 years old, a cemetery of cave bears and a column eight metres high. 
3 ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries chiesa di San Paragorio 📍 Noli Ligurian Romanesque outside the walls of Noli: ceramic bowls set into the apse, a crypt on Roman columns. - 4 basilica di San Biagio Finale Ligure · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 5 Chiesa del Santissimo Salvatore Vezzi Portio · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 6 Chiesa di San Lorenzo Orco Feglino · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 7 Chiesa di San Rocco Urbe · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 8 faro di Capo di Vado Bergeggi · 🏖️ Beaches & sea
- 9 Oratorio dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo Urbe · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 10 Oratorio dei Santi Sebastiano e Carlo Rialto · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 11 Oratorio della Santissima Annunziata Spotorno · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 12 Oratorio di Nostra Signora della Neve Giustenice · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 13 Oratorio di Nostra Signora di Castello Savona · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 14 Oratorio di San Rocco Giusvalla · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 15 Palazzo Gavotti Savona · 🖼️ Museums
- 16 Santuario di Nostra Signora delle Penne Laigueglia · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 17 concattedrale di San Pietro Noli · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 18 Castel Gavone Finale Ligure · 🏰 Castles & palaces
- 19 chiesa di San Giovanni Battista Loano · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 20 faro di Capo Mele Andora · 🏖️ Beaches & sea
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🏖️ Seaside 8 🏘️ Villages 3 🍷 Food & wine 1 🏛️ UNESCO heritage 1
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Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Toirano celebrates Saint Martin of Tours in the church named after him, in the municipality of the Varatella valley caves.
Saint Martin, patron of a town whose legend tells of a fief-holder's flight
📅 Every year, on 11 November
Onzo celebrates Saint Martin on 11 November, in the Baroque church in the locality of Capitolo; a legend tells that the inhabitants, exasperated by the demands of the fief-holder Scipione Del Carretto, stormed the castle and forced him to flee.
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
Bergeggi's patron is Saint Martin of Tours, on 11 November; off the village lies the island that for centuries was called after Saint Eugene.
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, heir to an ancient pieve
📅 Every year, on 25 November
Erli celebrates Saint Catherine of Alexandria on 25 November; the church dedicated to her, built around 1583, inherited parish status from the older pieve of San Martino.