What to see in Sassello

Religious buildings

  • Parish Church of the Santissima Trinità (Holy Trinity) – located in the old town, it was built between 1654 and 1725. It preserves important frescoes from the 18th Century by Paolo Gerolamo Brusco and several paintings by the Genoese pictorial school, dating back to the 17th and 18th Centuries.
  • San Giovanni Battista (St John the Baptist) Church – the first religious building of Sassello, built in the eleventh Century. It preserve canvases from the sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries, as well as some sculptures by the Genoese school including a statue of Anton Maria Marangano.
  • Basilica of the Immacolata Concezione (Immaculate Conception) – a religious building built between 1582 and 1584, formerly annexed to a monastery of minor friars. It houses a sculpture of the seventeenth Century by Pasquale Navone, paintings and frescoes by Lorenzo De Ferrari and Paolo Gerolamo Brusco.
  • Church of San Rocco (St Roch) – erected in 1630, it features a canvas attributed to Domenico Piola.
  • Oratory of the Disciplinanti – erected in the 17th Century, it retains a wooden group by Maragliano.
  • Church of Sant’Antonio Abate (St Antony the Great) – at the ancient nucleus of Bastia Sottana, formerly included within the walls of the castle built during the fifteenth Century by the Doria family. Although remarkably transformed and reduced, the ancient Marian church preserves a painting of Our Lady and saints by the painter Giovanni Battista Carlone.
  • Church of San Bernardo Abate (St Bernard Abbot)- in the hamlet of Palo, it is titled to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. The building was mentioned for the first time in a document of 1577 and it features, after the reconstruction of the twentieth Century, a neo-Romanesque façade.

Civil buildings

  • Palace Doria-Perrando – built in the 17th Century, the palace hosts today the headquarters of the town hall
  • Palace Gervino – inside there is a visit centre dedicated to the themes of geology and geomorphology of the territory and of the regional natural park of Beigua
  • Palace del Rostiolo – eighteenth Century, located in Piampaludo
  • Saracen Tower

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