Patron saint festival In 26 days
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.
The name comes from the Germanic Berg, rock: and the rock is the island just offshore, a mountain coming out of the water. The bishops of Savona had a monastery built on it in 992, but between the fourth and the sixth centuries it was already a refuge of the earliest monks.
The twentieth century left two memorial stones. On 4 May 1917, two miles off the coast, a German submarine sank the British steamer Transylvania: on the rocks stands the monument to the 414 dead. On the night of 25 October 1921 the disaster of the fort on monte Sant'Elena cost the village lives, houses and heavy damage to the parish church. The population is 1,126.
The Bergeggi guide
What to see 1
faro di Capo di Vado
What to eat here 1
Pesto alla Genovese
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Events & festivals 1
Next up: Feast of Saint Martin, Wednesday 11 November
Getting there
Nearest airport: Genova, 37 km away
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Bergeggi, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.