The Grimaldi, the ones from Monaco, started here. In 1251, after the surrender of Savona, Stella became the family's first fief; Menton and the Principality would come only later. The castle paid for it, destroyed twice within a few decades, and in 1385 it was the people of Stella themselves who drove the Grimaldi out.
The municipality is a scattered one and the town hall stands at San Giovanni, the village where Sandro Pertini was born, president of the Republic from 1978 to 1985, and where he rests with his wife Carla Voltolina. All around, the upper basin of the Sansobbia and the woods of the Beigua park. The population is 3,066.
cappella dell'Immacolata · cappella della Madonna del Salto · chiesa di San Martino and 1 more
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Next up: Saint John the Baptist, patron of Pertini's town, Thursday 24 June
Nearest airport: Genova, 27 km away
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📅 Every year, on 24 June
Stella celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 24 June; the church dedicated to him stands in the hamlet of the same name, birthplace of President Sandro Pertini.
cappella dell'Immacolata A small hillside oratory at Stella, with an eighteenth-century Immaculate Conception. 
cappella della Madonna del Salto A horseman went over the edge here and survived; the chapel changed its patron saint. 
chiesa di San Martino The parish church on Stella's hill: frescoed dome, a 1728 marble font, statues by Maragliano. 
castello di Stella Innocent IV slept here in 1244; a tower and shreds of wall are what is left. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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