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eating and drinking vessels. VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Well worth seeking out are the
superb Arab- and Byzantine- Practical Information
influenced ceramics and the Road Map C4. * 69,000.
multicoloured and Savona n Corso Italia, 157r,
majolica (typically coloured 019 840 23 21. _ Good Friday
blue and white). procession, Pasqua Musicale
There are also cooking pots Savonese; Concorso Nazionale
and metal, bone and glass della Ceramica d’Arte (biennial
objects from local excavations, ceramics fair shared with
Albissola Marina; next in 2018);
as well as a 5–6th-century Confuoco (Sun before Christmas)
burial ground. ∑ turismoinliguria.it
P Torre del Brandale Transport
Piazza del Brandale. V
Crucifixion by Donato de’ Bardi, The old port is one of the
an early painting on canvas most attractive parts of the
city, not so much for the there is a ceramic relief, entitled
artists such as Magritte, Miró, mass of boats that moor here Apparition – first carved in
Picasso and Man Ray. but more for the backdrop of 1513 (what you see today
On the first floor of the medieval towers. dates from the 1960s).
palazzo is the Civico Museo Dating from the 12th The tower’s great bell is
Storico-Archeologico. The century, the Torre del known to the Savonesi as
focus of the exhibits here is the Brandadlei is one of the “a campanassa” – a name
original Savonese settlement, most interesting of used by a local history
with finds gathered mostly from Savona’s old towers. association which has its
other (Roman or pre-Roman) It owes its name to headquarters in the
collections, as well as items the flagstaff on top, adjacent Palazzo
discovered in the city environs. commonly known degli Anziani,
Ceramics, amphorae and as the “brandale”. formerly the seat of
funerary objects from the Bronze Inside, traces of the podestà. Built in
and Iron ages are on display, frescoes from the the 14th century, its
along with medieval weaving same era can be seen, façade dates from
tools, ornamental objects and while on the façade The Torre del Brandale the 1600s.

Savona Town Centre
1 Il Priamàr MILLESIMO PIAZZA VIA FA M A G OS TA
ALTARE
2 Torre del Brandale ARMANDO Torre di Leon
DIAZ
3 Piazza Salineri VIA DEI MILLE Chiesa di Pancaldo
4 Torre di Leon Pancaldo BOSELLI VIA TERESA VI A P IET R O Sant’Andrea VIA DELLA CALATA
5 Chiesa di Sant’Andrea C OR S O I TAL I A PA LE O CA PA Oratorio
VIA SANTA
PIAZZA
6 Palazzo Della Rovere GOFFREDO del Cristo Porto D EL MOLO VIA AGOSTINO CHIODO
VIA
Risorto
Piazza
MAMELI
7 Oratorio del Train station Nostra Salineri VIA GRAMSCI VIA A. BAGLIETTO
di
Cristo Risorto 800m (900 yards) Signora di Palazzo Savona
Della
V IA C.
Castello
8 Cattedrale di Nostra A ST ENG O VI A N IE LL A Rovere CALATA PIAZZA
Cattedrale di
Signora Assunta Nostra Signora V IA A O NZO SBARBARO REBAGLIATI
PIPPP
VIA
9 Nostra Signora VI A V ER Z EL LIN O Assunta Torre del GRAMSCI
Brandale
di Castello V I A P. G I URI A
V I A L UI G I C O R SO ITAL I A VIA U NTO R I A
C OR S I
C O R S O G I U S E P P E M A Z Z I N I
V IA B AR TO LO MEO GUI D OB O NO
Il Priamàr
V I A LORE NZ O GIA C C HE R O
CORSO C. COLOMBO PASS. T R ENT O E . TRIESTE
M ON T E NO TT
V IA E
VIA GUIDOBONO
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