Celle Ligure

Francesco della Rovere, elected Pope Sixtus IV in 1471, was born in 1414 in Pecorile, a hamlet of this Riviera town. The old centre grew along the Ghiare stream in a cove of the Riviera delle Palme, and a seafront promenade laid where the railway once ran links it to the modern beach district of the Piani di Celle.

Highlights

• San Michele Arcangelo, with a 1535 polyptych by Perin del Vaga
• Torre Bregalla, built between the 11th and 16th centuries
• The Lungomare della Crocetta, the promenade joining the two halves of town
• The Bottini funicular up to the pinewood
• The 18th-century church of Nostra Signora della Consolazione

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