Patron saint festival In 53 days
Feast of Saint Ambrose
📅 Every year, on 7 December
On 7 December Alassio celebrates Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan, in the parish church that has borne his name since 1507.
At Alassio there is a wall made of signatures: coloured ceramic tiles with the names of people who have passed through. They call it the Muretto, and it stands in the centre, a few steps from the Budello, the paved lane that runs through the town.
The English have always come to Alassio, and on the olive hills they built their villas. In the winter between 1903 and 1904 Edward Elgar stayed here and wrote the overture In the South (Alassio). The beach is low and sandy and draws a long curve, from Capo di Santa Croce to Capo Mele. There are 11,026 residents.
The Alassio guide
What to see 4
chiesa della Carità · chiesa di Santa Maria Immacolata · santuario di Nostra Signora della Guardia and 1 more
What to eat here 1
Pesto alla Genovese
Where to stay 25
25 places to stay · top rated: Hotel Windsor 9.3 · Boutique Hotel de la Ville 9.3
Events & festivals 1
Next up: Feast of Saint Ambrose, Monday 7 December
Getting there
Nearest airport: Genova, 70 km away
Tours, tickets and experiences
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What to see in Alassio
chiesa della Carità Built by Alassio's shipowners between 1307 and 1310 for the first Jubilee, with three altars in a row. 
chiesa di Santa Maria Immacolata A slate pulpit dated 1503 and a walnut altar in what was the Capuchin church of Alassio. 
santuario di Nostra Signora della Guardia At 586 metres on Monte Tirasso: sailors' ex voto and a vault frescoed from 1859. 
Torrione della Coscia A sixteenth-century Genoese round tower in Borgo Coscia, now private: seen from the street only. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
Near Alassio
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Alassio, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Visconteo 📍 Legnano · 2.1 km Medieval castle on an Olona island, once the convent of San Giorgio, with the Lampugnani keep of 1437-1445. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Legnano · 2.6 km Legnano's oldest church, rebuilt in 1590 and enlarged in 1740, with paintings by the Lampugnani. Basilica di San Magno 📍 Legnano · 2.8 km Renaissance basilica of the Bramante school built from 1504 to 1513, with Bernardino Luini's polyptych. Chiesa di Santa Rita 📍 Legnano · 3.2 km Church of the Purification, later Santa Rita, annexed to the Melzi institute, with Lampugnani frescoes. Museo civico Guido Sutermeister 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Legnano's archaeological museum, set up in 1929, with finds from the Copper Age to the Lombards and the Sala collection. Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Lombard Romanesque church of 1902 at Legnanello, with a Byzantine altar of Carrara marble and mosaics of 1923.