Patron saint festival In 198 days
Feast of Saint Catherine of Siena
📅 Every year, on 30 April
On 30 April Varazze celebrates Saint Catherine of Siena, protectress of the town together with the blessed Jacopo da Varagine, who was born right here.
The island of Lanzarote bears the name of a man from Varazze. In 1312 Lanzerotto Malocello went past the Pillars of Hercules and landed there: the island has been called after him ever since. That he was a sailor is no surprise, in a town whose trade has always been building boats.
The name says it: Varagine, the place where ships are launched. Before that came the Roman station Ad Navalia, then the yards that Savona and Genoa fought over all through the Middle Ages, then in the nineteenth century the Baglietto yards, which built boats for kings. There are 13,461 residents.
The Varazze guide
What to see 5
collegiata di Sant'Ambrogio · chiesa della Natività di Maria Santissima · chiesa vecchia della Santissima Annunziata and 2 more
What to eat here 1
Pesto alla Genovese
Where to stay 24
24 places to stay · top rated: Hotel Villa Centa 9.1 · Hotel Lido 9.1
Events & festivals 1
Next up: Feast of Saint Catherine of Siena, Friday 30 April
Getting there
Nearest airport: Genova, 22 km away
Tours, tickets and experiences
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What to see in Varazze
collegiata di Sant'Ambrogio The red bell tower is 14th-century; the church was rebuilt in 1535, the facade in 1916. 
chiesa della Natività di Maria Santissima Consecrated in 1750 above Varazze, with an Agati-Tronci organ and Blessed Jacopo on the façade. 
chiesa vecchia della Santissima Annunziata Deconsecrated in 1959 as the hillside crept: the night moaning was barn owls under the roof. 
Palazzo Beato Jacopo The statue of the blessed faces the lanes; the frescoed coat of arms faces the sea. 
Villa Cilea The study where Francesco Cilea worked survives untouched; the garden only in part. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
Near Varazze
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Varazze, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 12 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. basilica cattedrale di San Martino 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's cathedral, rebuilt by Tullio Lombardo in the sixteenth century, with Juvarra's bell tower. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 14 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 16 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 16 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt.