Patron saint festival In 82 days
Feast of Saint Christopher
📅 Every year, on 7 January
On 7 January San Cristoforo celebrates its patron Saint Christopher, whose name became part of the town's own name; the Castello di San Cristoforo stands here.
San Cristoforo sits on a plateau to the left of the Lemme, between the Ovada country and Gavi, and belongs to the Novese, the district named after Novi Ligure. It grew along the road to ancient Libarna, around a lookout tower, the Torre del Gazzolo, which the castle later swallowed.
In 1313 emperor Henry VII granted the fief to the Spinola di Luccoli, and an imperial fief it stayed until 1732, when Savoy took it over. The castle is a group of buildings inside walls that takes in the parish church too; the core is a quadrangle with its moat, and the tower still rises above the roofs on its corbelled crown.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 4.3 km Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 5.9 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 8.4 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 8.5 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 basilica di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Camogli · 9.1 km Camogli's parish church, gilded baroque inside, built on a rock beside the old harbour Museo marinaro di Camogli 📍 Camogli · 9.2 km Ship models, pilot books and relics of a village fleet, collected by Gio Bono Ferrari from 1937