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.
Near Borghetto Santo Spirito
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Borghetto Santo Spirito, but an easy day trip away.
Porta Mosa 📍 Cremona · 7.3 km The last gate left in Cremona, medieval in origin, with a sixteenth-century archway and the bastion of San Giorgio. Chiesa di San Sisto 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Renaissance church in Piacenza that kept Raphael's Sistine Madonna, with the tomb of Margaret of Austria. Palazzo Farnese 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Great Farnese palace of Piacenza designed by Vignola, home to the civic museums with the Etruscan liver and Botticelli. Chiesa delle Benedettine 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Deconsecrated Baroque church of 1681 built by the Farnese, with a double church for nuns and faithful and a great dome. Basilica di San Savino 📍 Piacenza · 21 km Romanesque basilica in Piacenza with a Baroque façade of 1721, a crypt with zodiac mosaics and Saint Sabinus's relics. Violin Museum 📍 Cremona · 24 km Housed in Cremona's Palazzo dell'Arte, this museum displays masterpieces by Stradivari and the city's greatest luthiers.