Savignone ( lij, Savignon) is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Metropolitan City of Genoa
The Metropolitan City of Genoa ( it, Città Metropolitana di Genova) is one of the fourteen Metropolitan cities of Italy, located in the region of Liguria. Its capital is the city of Genoa. It replaced the Province of Genoa.
History
It was first ...
in the
Italian region
Liguria
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, located about north of
Genoa
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.
Savignone borders the following municipalities:
Busalla,
Casella,
Crocefieschi
Crocefieschi () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northeast of Genoa
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,
Mignanego,
Serra Riccò
Serra Riccò ( lij, A Særa) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about north of Genoa, in the Val Polcevera.
Serra Riccò borders the following municipalities: Casella, Genoa ...
,
Valbrevenna.
History
The area of Savignone was settled probably in the
Iron Age
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. In the Middle Ages it was a fief of
Tortona
Tortona (; pms, Torton-a , ; lat, Dhertona) is a ''comune'' of Piemonte, in the Province of Alessandria, Italy. Tortona is sited on the right bank of the Scrivia between the plain of Marengo and the foothills of the Ligurian Apennines.
Histo ...
, and in 1242 it was acquired by the
Republic of Genoa
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which entrusted it to the
Spinola family. Later it was under the
Fieschi, who sold it back to Genoa in 1636. From 1815 it was part of the
Kingdom of Sardinia
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, belonging to Italy from 1861.
Main sights
*Fieschi castle (13th century)
*''Palazzo Fieschi'' (16th century)
*Parish church of St. Bartholomew, housing two canvasses by
Luca Cambiaso.
Demographic evolution
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References
See also
*
Parco naturale regionale dell'Antola
Cities and towns in Liguria
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