What to see · Ovada

Ovada's Genoese sanctuary, its stone brought back into view in the nineties.

Sober baroque inspired by Genoa, with twin bell towers and Pietro Ivaldi's vault.

A Lercaro fortified villa of 1570, given to the town in 1872 as a hospice, now a ruin

A plague vow of 1631, first stone in 1640, and an almost total rebuild after the 1935 fire

Founded by Dominicans in 1481, with a high altar brought from Genoa in 1690