In 1385 pope Urban VI sold Spotorno to the Republic of Genoa. Pietra Ligure was in the same package, and the price for the two was 60,000 florins: a seaside fief changing hands like any other property.
The name comes from spelt: Spelturnum in the documents of the twelfth century, from the Latin spelta with a suffix that marks where a given plant grows, the place where spelt is grown. Before the pope the town had belonged to the Del Carretto and then to the bishop of Savona, who by 1180 already held its castle; and Noli, Segno and Genoa once allied to attack it. There are 3,886 residents.
Oratorio della Santissima Annunziata · chiesa della Santissima Annunziata · castello di Spotorno and 2 more
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Next up: The Most Holy Annunciation, patroness of the fishing village, Thursday 25 March
Nearest airport: Genova, 39 km away
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📅 Every year, on 25 March
Spotorno celebrates the Most Holy Annunciation on 25 March; the parish church dedicated to her, reconsecrated in 1694, stands beside the oratory of the same name, home to many sailors' ex-votos.
Oratorio della Santissima Annunziata Spotorno's confraternity oratory, with its rebuilding date cut into the wall. 
chiesa della Santissima Annunziata Seventeen tombs under the 1751 floor, a Piccaluga organ of 1772 and Genoese school canvases. 
castello di Spotorno Levelled in 1227, rebuilt, then left to fall: the quadrangular ruin on the hill above Spotorno. 
Villa Canesi Sanguineti, the Serra marquises, the Pescetto: the private house closing old Spotorno to the east. 
Torre di Sant'Antonio Genoa built it in the sixteenth century to spot Saracen pirates before they reached the shore. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Spotorno, but an easy day trip away.
