Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Matthew
📅 Every year, on 21 September
On 21 September Borghetto Santo Spirito celebrates Saint Matthew; the town's main church bears the same title.
The «Santo Spirito» of the name comes from a hospice. On 11 March 1154 the Hospitaller friars of Rome founded at Capo d'Anzio a church with a shelter attached, dedicated to the Holy Spirit; between the twelfth and the thirteenth century the building passed to the monks of San Pietro in Varatella.
Before them came the Romans: on the via Julia Augusta, towards Loano, a bridge survives that they call here the «pontasso», and in January 1871, digging for a villa at Capo d'Anzio, a grey stone altar came to light. A deed of 1254 records the sale of a piece of land for 20 Genoese lire. There are 5,154 residents.
The Borghetto Santo Spirito guide
What to see 3
chiesa di San Matteo · Castello Borelli · Palazzo Elena Pietracaprina
What to eat here 1
Pesto alla Genovese
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Getting there
Nearest airport: Genova, 58 km away
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What to see in Borghetto Santo Spirito
chiesa di San Matteo Four Badaracco canvases and a Brilla facade in the parish church of Borghetto. 
Castello Borelli A seventeenth-century friary turned into a neo-Gothic residence from 1870, now abandoned. 
Palazzo Elena Pietracaprina Built in 1915 and given to the town in 1920 by a benefactor who made her money in Uruguay. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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