Final Pia or Finale Pia is one of three units forming the Ligurian town of

Finale Ligure Finale Ligure (, locally ; ) is a ''comune'' on the Gulf of Genoa, in the province of Savona, in Liguria, Italy. It is considered part of the Italian Riviera. Part of its historical center ("Finalborgo") is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("Th ...

, near

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, northern

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. An independent municipality until 1927, it was later merged with Finale Marina and Finalborgo to form the modern town of Finale Ligure. The village is situated along the

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, however, most of the buildings face the banks of the river Sciusa, especially after the big residential development in the postwar period, expansion that has effectively united the center of the inner Finale Pia Calvisio ''

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'', at about one kilometer from the coast.

History

The old town developed around the church of Santa Maria Pia in medieval times. Like other centers of Finale, Finale Pia was part of

Marquisate of Finale The Marquisate of Finale was an Italian state of the Holy Roman Empire in what is now Liguria, part of the former medieval Aleramici March. It was ruled for some six centuries by the Aleramici branch known as marquesses del Vasto (when they also ...

under the Del Carretto, the

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and

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, until it was annexed to Piedmont-Sardinia in the 19th century.

Gallery

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