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  Img Coa Savona-Stemmapng
  City Comune di Savona
  Region Liguria
  Province Savona (SV)
  Altitude
  Area Cityproper 65
  Population As Of December 12 , 2004
  Populationdensity 61,742
  Populationdensitymetric 921
  Timezone CET , UTC +1
  Coordinates
  Frazioni Lavagnola, Légino, Zinola, Santuario
  Telephone 019
  Postalcode 17100
  Gentilic Savonesi
  Saint Our Lady of Misericordy
  Day March 18
  Mayor Carlo Ruggeri (Francesco Lirosi regent)
  Website wwwcomunesavonait


Savona used to be one of the chief seats of the Italian iron industry, having iron-works and foundries, shipbuilding, railway workshops, engineering shops, brass foundry.

HISTORY


Savona is the Roman Savo of the Ingauni, where, according to Livy , Mago stored his booty in the Second Punic War .

The place was outshone in importance in Roman times by the harbor at Vada Sabatia (Vado), from which a road diverged across the Apennines to Placentia. In 1191 the commune of Savona bought out the territorial claims of the feudal lords, the marchesi Del Carretto. Its whole history is that of a long struggle against Genoa. As early as the 12th Century the Savonese built themselves a sufficient harbour, but in the 16th Century the Genoese, fearing that Francis I Of France intended to make it a great seat of Mediterranean trade, rendered it useless by sinking at its mouth vessels filled with large stones. In 1746 Savona was captured by the king of Sardinia, but it was restored to Genoa by the Treaty Of Aix-la-Chapelle .


MAIN SIGHTS


  • On the ''Rocca di San Giorgio'' stands the fortress named Priamar ("rock on the sea") built by the Genoese in 1542 , on the area of the old cathedral and later used as a prison and military prison (italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini was imprisoned here).

  • Near the Cathedral (built 15891604 ) is the Cappella Sistina containing the tomb erected by the Della Rovere Pope Sixtus IV to honor his parents. The Cathedral has one of the most notworthy wooden choirs of Italian churches.

  • Facing the cathedral is the unfinished Palazzo Della Rovere, built by Cardinal Giulio della Rovere ( Pope Julius II ) from the plans of Giuliano Da Sangallo as a university.

  • The Sanctuary of Nostra Signora della Misericordia.



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