Finale Ligure (Liguria): what to see


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What to see in Finale Ligure, itinerary including the main monuments and places to visit, including Castel Gavone, archaeological museum and excursions to do in the surrounding area.


Tourist information

Location of prehistoric origin, Finale Ligure during the Middle Ages was first a fief and then a marquisate of the Carretto family.

After being ceded to Spain in the sixteenth century, it passed to the Austrian government which in turn handed it over to the Republic of Genoa.


Finale Ligure is today a fairly popular holiday resort, which includes the inhabited centers of Finale Pia, Finale Marina, Finalborgo and Varigotti.

In Finale Pia there is the church of Santa Maria di Pia, built in the eighteenth century on top of a previous construction of medieval origin, which is equipped with a bell tower cuspidata with mullioned windows.

Next to this church there is a Benedictine Abbey from the sixteenth century, which includes two remarkable cloisters inside.


The coastal strip between the Porta and Sciusa streams forms part of Finale Marina, characterized by a sandy beach with an elegant avenue lined with palm trees on the side.

In the basement of the Capuchin Church there are the remains of the ancient parish church of Finale, dating back to the period between the fifth and sixth centuries.

What see

Finalborgo is surrounded by the remains of the fifteenth-century walls, with battlements and semi-cylindrical towers, above one of which there is the polygonal and pointed Gothic bell tower of the church of San Biagio, of medieval origin but reworked in the seventeenth century.


The convent of Santa Caterina in via Lancelotto was built in the fourteenth century by the Del Carretto family, later, in 1864, after being deconsecrated, it was used as a prison.

In the rooms located around its cloister, the Civic Museum is set up, where materials found in the prehistoric caves in the area are exhibited.

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Not far from the village are the remains of the Gavone Castle, of medieval origin but renovated several times in later periods, including the fifteenth century Diamond Tower finished in rustication.

Continuing beyond Finale Pia, in the direction of Savona, you reach Varigotti, a popular seaside resort characterized by typical Mediterranean-style terrace houses.

In the hinterland of Finale the cave area can be visited, among which the Arene Candide area, located just beyond the tip of Caprazoppa, and that of Arma Pollera, located in Pianmarino, deserve attention.

Nearby is Perti, just two kilometers from Finalborgo, an ancient village where there are Roman remains and the Renaissance-style Our Lady of Loreto church, built between 1488 and 1493, characterized by five bell towers.

Verzi, located 2 km from Finale Pia, is characterized by the presence of five ancient Roman bridges dating back to the second century AD, built in the place where the Via Julia Augusta once passed.

Nearby is the cave of the fairies, where some human and animal remains from the Paleolithic era have been found.

Among the excursions, the one in Calizzano is recommended, a holiday resort located at a distance of about 26 km, where there is an interesting zoological park.


In Colle di Melogno, which is reached after 17 km along a panoramic road, after a slight detour you reach Bardino Nuovo, where you can visit some interesting churches and workshops specialized in the production of tower clocks, also in the village there is a small thematic museum dedicated to the clock.

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