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47-465: Sturla is part of the Medio Levante municipality, and has a population of 8278 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2010). In the 1800s the current quartiere was a commune of San Martino d'Albaro, while the village of Vernazzola was a commune of San Francesco d'Albaro . However, both communes were annexed by Genoa in 1874. The area of Sturla is marked out by Corso Europa, Via Orsini, the right bank of

94-607: A parish in its own right in 1894. In the 1940s the church underwent a major restoration, which involved almost a total renovation of the building. This reconstruction virtually erased the various reconstructions of the Baroque era to bring the building, at least in its essential structure, back to its original fifteenth-century form, although the restoration was undertaken in an interpretive and not scientifically rigorous fashion. The church has three naves , each complete with its own semi-circular apse . The side naves are separated from

141-459: A few houses clustered around the ancient Oratorio di San Celso, the existence of which has been documented since 1311 although it was rebuilt in the Baroque period and then completely rebuilt in 2002. the Vernazza river, now completely channeled into tunnels, which flows from the area of the ancient Roman road, Via Aurelia, which is also known as Vernazza, in the district of San Martino, through

188-416: A few peasants, with vegetable gardens, vineyards and some monasteries. There were no settlements along the coast except for the fishermen's village of Boccadasse, where a small cove admitted the landing of boats. From the 16th century Genoese aristocratic families built large villas in the surroundings of the city, and Albaro became one of their preferred places in which to spend the summertime. The age of

235-519: A road built in the sixties, linking the neighbourhoods to the east of Genoa to the city centre. The nearest motorway exit is Genoa-Nervi, on the A12 , 4 miles from Sturla. Sturla has a railway station on the Genoa – Pisa line, in which only regional trains stop. It’s used for connections to the other parts of city and the coastal towns Levante Riviera. In Sturla there is a Site of Community Importance , as

282-517: The 19th century Albaro was a renowned holiday resort for the Genoese upper class, who lived in the city and during summer used to move to their villas in Albaro. Nowadays it is a wealthy residential neighborhood, where during the last century next to the historic villas apartment buildings have been built, most of them with broad exclusive green spaces. For few months, from September 1822 to July 1823,

329-609: The Doge, Simone Boccanegra was mysteriously poisoned. Sturla was once famous for its zavorristi , the men who loaded and unloaded the ballast required by sailing ships to maintain the right balance out at sea. Initially Via Aurelia , which was used from the Middle Ages until the Napoleonic era, avoided the sea, passing along Via Antica Romana di Quarto, over Ponte Vecchio di Sturla (a medieval bridge with two arches) and along

376-403: The Genoese upper class, who in summer moved there to spend the hot season. Originally the villas formed the centres of productive agricultural estates, but later they were transformed into stately summer mansions, enriched with works of art and large parks. The construction of the villas continued down to the 18th century, but during the 19th century the rich entrepreneurial class took the place of

423-510: The Italian city of Genoa , located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) east of the city centre. It was formerly an independent comune , named San Francesco d'Albaro, included in the city of Genoa in 1873. At present, together with the neighbourhoods of Foce  [ it ] and San Martino d'Albaro  [ it ] is part of the Genoa's city VIII Municipio (Medio Levante). From the 16th to

470-687: The Middle Ages. There were also reports of clashes between the Grillo and Vento family in 1179. In 1284, Oberto Doria , Captain of the People and Admiral of the Republic of Genoa , during the war against Pisa, which culminated on August 6 in the same year as the battle of Meloria , deployed his ships in front of the Sturla beach, waiting for the events to unfold. On 26 November 1322 the Guelphs attacked

517-656: The Sturla river (from which it takes its name) and the sea. During the 20th century the neighborhood went through a period of extensive construction, but the centers of the original ancient villages are still recognizable. The neighbouring quarters are Albaro to the west, Borgoratti and San Martino to the north and Quarto dei Mille to the east. The neighbourhood is home to the Villa Gentile athletics arena, as well as several public and private bathing facilities. A water purification plant has been built between Sturla beach and Vernazzola beach. There are several schools in

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564-575: The Venetian school of the sixteenth century. There is also a Madonna and Child and Saint Anthony by Gregorio De Ferrari (1690) and a sixteenth-century fresco, again depicting Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch. The church of San Celso, the first religious building built in Sturla, located in Vico del Pesce, not far from the mouth of Sturla river, is now the oratory of the Disciplinati di Sturla, under

611-591: The area of Borgoratti. On the way it collects the waters of tributaries such as the Pomà river, the Canè river, the Penego river and other smaller streams. Considered by many to be the finest beach in Genoa, Sturla beach spreads out to either side of the mouth of the Sturla river. One of the first free beaches heading east from the city center it attracts vast numbers of people all through the summer months. Many people also come for

658-432: The aristocratic. They built small villas, while the historic houses, no longer appropriate for the new needs, were divided into apartments or handed over to religious communities. Today, some of the renovated historic mansions are divided into apartments, while others are home to private schools, clinics and nursing homes. Most of the parks were lost to new buildings, and only a few of them remain as public parks. Some of

705-530: The castle of Sturla, containing the garrison of the Ghibellines, who controlled the Bisagno valley. After two days the besiegers, who also possessed a trebuchet , pummeled the castle with stones, fatally weakening the walls, and the castle constructed by Antonio Doria was forced to surrender. In 1363, during a banquet given by the nobleman Pietro Malocello in honor of Peter I , King of Cyprus, visiting Genoa,

752-481: The central by four columns on each side connected by semicircular arches. The facade was built freely reinterpreting the original style, with two monofora windows (narrow windows with an arched top and single opening), a central rose window and the original slate architrave above the entrance. It contains notable works of art from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including a Madonna and Child and Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch (San Rocco). They’re of

799-418: The coast line runs the seafront named Corso Italia . Albaro includes most of the territory of the former comune of San Francesco d'Albaro, except some small areas, and its boundaries are the sea coast (Corso Italia), Via Nizza and Via Pozzo on the west side, Corso Gastaldi on the north side, via Sclopis and via Orlando on the east side. Until the 15th century, Albaro hill was a rural area, populated only by

846-475: The district. There's a nursery school (Nini Corsanego) as well as a kindergarten (Bartolomeo Chighizola), both on the road leading from Piazza Sturla to Vernazzola beach. There's also a primary school dedicated to Ettore Vernazza, a middle school ( Bernardo Strozzi ) and the Martin Luther King high school that focuses on the sciences and was built in the 1960s. The Genoese poet, Vico Faggi dedicated

893-401: The early twentieth century, luxurious Art Nouveau villas. However, like Boccadasse, the village still preserves its ancient dwellings, the network of old streets and an atmosphere of a bygone era. Some of the streets around Vernazzola have characteristic names inspired by ancient classical mythology: Argonauti , Giasone , Icarus , Pelio , Urania . These names were chosen at the request of

940-576: The few clubs in Liguria to be awarded a title of Italian champion teams "Fishing SUB second category" (1997), and its athlete, Diego Romero , earned a bronze medal in the Laser class at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. 44°23′37″N 8°59′04″E  /  44.3937°N 8.9844°E  / 44.3937; 8.9844 Albaro Albaro is an affluent residential neighbourhood of

987-430: The following verse to Sturla: Una luce, un riflesso. Quel barbaglio ti fulmina, dal vetro, e tutto il borgo si ridesta, s’arruffa. [...] In the area of Sturla, starting from the early Middle Ages , several maritime settlements arose due to the presence of useful landing places. Boccadasse is located immediately to the west of Capo di Santa Chiara. Although it’s part of the district of Albaro it can be considered

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1034-591: The fourteenth and the seventeenth century, while other works of art, including the altarpiece depicting the Saints Roch, Nazarius and Celsus , Catherine of Siena and Saint Sebastian , by Bernardo Castello , were transferred to the parish church of the Santissima Annunziata . In Sturla you’ll also find the convent of Sisterhood of St. John the Baptist , a religious order of women founded in

1081-413: The increase of population three new modern churches have been constructed (N.S. del Rosario, Santa Teresa and San Pio X). Other notable churches include San Giuliano Abbey  [ it ] , now close to Corso Italia, built in the 13th century: this is the only one of several small churches built on the seashore to survive. Santa Maria del Prato  [ it ] , near to San Francesco d'Albaro,

1128-479: The last mayor of San Francesco d'Albaro, a passionate lover of the classical world, shortly before the annexation of the town to Genoa, in the second half of the 18th Century. Along the road that leads around Capo di Santa Chiara, a distinctive vantage point dominated by the medieval styled Turcke castle, there are some eighteenth-century villas, the Augustinian convent and the church of Santa Chiara, founded in

1175-457: The last of the small fishing villages of the area of Sturla. Vernazzola is a picturesque fishing village at the mouth of the Vernazza river located a short distance to the east of Boccadasse . The bay in which the village is located is hemmed in by two rocky outcrops named Grosso and Bernardina. The view extends to the east to the Portofino peninsular. As well as being a fishing village, in

1222-626: The many bars and restaurants that open directly onto the beach. The church of the Santissima Annunziata , in a dominant position over Piazza Sturla was built between 1434 and 1435 and is now the home of the parish church of the Deanery of Albaro in the Archdiocese of Genoa . The church was built at the behest of two priests, Pietro Micichero and Domenico Verrucca, who had founded a congregation of secular canons . From 1441 it

1269-403: The men's Mattia Alberico and Marco Formentini, and in the ladies Paola Cavallino and Giorgia Consiglio (the women's race has been held since 1986). The ASD Urania di Vernazzola, established in 1926, is active in rowing and sport fishing . The Circolo Nautico Sturla, founded in 1981 by some sturlesi is active in sailing, and pesca subacquea (fishing while scuba diving). The CNS is now one of

1316-408: The mid-eighteenth century by Giovanna Maria Battista Solimani . The nuns moved here in 1924 from their original location in the centre of Genoa, in the street still called "Salita delle Battistine”. Next to the convent is a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist, consecrated on 18 June 1960, containing the tomb of the founder. The historical events of Sturla are closely tied to those of Genoa. Until

1363-515: The more recent Palazzo Ollandini, original building of Robaldo Morozzo della Rocca . In Albaro there are today five Catholic parish churches , among them the historic churches of San Francesco d'Albaro  [ it ] , with a monastery of Friars Minor Conventual (built in the 14th century, and in which today Greyfriars still officiate), and Sant'Antonio in Boccadasse  [ it ] (18th century). Since World War II , owing to

1410-425: The most famous groups of singers of Genovese trallalero folk music. The “Canterini Vecchia Sturla” were formed in 1926 but no longer exists. La Sportiva Sturla, founded in 1920, is active in water sports (swimming and especially water polo in which they won the championship in 1923, breaking for a single year, a string of successes of their rivals, Andrea Doria, which lasted for twenty years). In more recent times,

1457-543: The most notable of these historic houses are: Houses built in the first decades of 20th century reflect the architectural styles of that time. Gothic revival , Art Nouveau and rationalist buildings can be seen. The best examples in these styles of architecture are the Villa Canali Gaslini and the Castle Türke (both designed by Gino Coppedè ), the rationalist buildings of Luigi Carlo Daneri , and

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1504-433: The past Vernazzola was an important landing ground from where it was possible to climb the Sturla valley, on through the quartiere of Bavari and into the upper Bisagno valley. Immediately behind the houses on the shoreline there once stood a Dominican convent with an adjoining hospital for travellers. In time, behind the coastal buildings there gradually arose grand villas of the aristocratic families of Genoa, and finally, in

1551-499: The romantic poet Lord Byron lived here. The English writer Charles Dickens spent in Albaro the summer of 1844, and here he wrote the short novel The Chimes . A well known hamlet of Albaro is Boccadasse , a fishermen's village at the eastern side of Corso Italia. According to the historian Federico Donaver (1861–1915), Albaro probably takes its name from the ancient Ligurian word arbà , which means bay . Another hypothesis (also advanced by Donaver) suggests that it derives from

1598-539: The ruins of which were demolished for the construction of Corso Italia. The others were those of San Vito, Santa Giusta, San Luca and Sant'Elena. Many notable people resided in Albaro at different times (among them Guido Gozzano , Charles Dickens , George Byron and Gabriello Chiabrera ). Monte Fasce Monte Fasce is a mountain in Liguria , northern Italy , part of the Ligurian Apennines . It

1645-502: The sixteenth century. To the East of Vernazzola, separated by the small hill between the Vernazza river and the Sturla river, is the historic core of Sturla, a tiny fishing village, as evidenced by some of the place names, which winds around Via del Tritone, Via Tabarca, Via Zoagli, Vico del Pesce and Via del Bragone. Today the village, partly reduced in size by the opening immediately upstream of an enlarged road (Via Dei Mille), consists of

1692-529: The small valley containing the Martin Luther King high school, passes under Piazza Sturla and finally flows into the sea in an outlet in Vernazzola. Sturla is bisected by the Sturla river. The river is ten kilometers long and rarely dry. It starts in the districts of San Desidario and Bavari where it runs through a narrow valley between the slopes of Monte Fasce and Monte Ratti, then coming to

1739-408: The start of the 20th century, the area, like the other two municipalities to which it belonged (San Francesco d'Albaro and San Martino d'Albaro), was made up of small settlements of farmers and fishermen, away from the main communication routes of the time. The oldest historical references regarding the area of Sturla refer to the frequent fights between Guelphs and Ghibellines that bloodied Genoa in

1786-496: The streets of Casette, Pontetti and Vernazza. With the road revolution in the nineteenth-century a main road opened up between Genoa, Albaro and Sturla. It was a continuation towards Genoa of the new coastal Via Aurelia, which in 1808 had reached Nervi from Levante. The new road, perpendicular to the ancient creuze (little streets that lead down toward the sea), put an end to the isolation of the city from Levante, reaching Piazza Sturla, heading towards San Martino and then on to Genoa. In

1833-518: The title of Saint Roch . It was built in the fourteenth century (the first records date back to 1311), restored in 1391 and completely rebuilt in 1594. In 2002 it was completely restored. Already an independent parish, in 1406 it became subordinate to San Martino d'Albaro, under the patronage of the Spinola family. It later became the oratory of the brotherhood named Santi Rocco e Nazario e Celso. There are remarkable preserved frescoes painted between

1880-415: The twentieth century more roads were built, starting from Piazza Sturla, that more directly linked Sturla to the centre of Genoa. Piazza Sturla was more recently enlarged with a viaduct that leads from Via Caprera over the valley of the Vernazza river. Small secluded ancient fishing settlements still remain amongst this sea of modern roads. From Piazza Sturla, Via Sturla and Via Isonzo lead to Corso Europa,

1927-475: The villas ended at the close of the 18th century, with the decline of the Republic of Genoa and its annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia . In 1873 the comune of San Francesco d'Albaro, together with other 6 communes in the neighbourhood of Genoa, was included in the municipality of Genoa, and with the master-plan of 1906 a process of urban development began. New roads suitable for car traffic were opened, and

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1974-406: The villas gardens were divided into lots, so creating a stately and exclusive residential neighbourhood for the Genoese upper class. During the early 16th century, the aristocratic families of Genoese ruling class built their villas, designed by the best architects, in the surroundings of the city. The hill of Albaro, on account of its proximity to the city, became a favorite place of vacation for

2021-586: The water polo team, having missed out on promotion to the A1 league in the early nineties, currently plays in Serie B. La Sportiva Sturla has organized since 1969 the "Memorial Morena", an international youth swimming meet, which is held every two years, and the "Miglio Marino di Sturla" swimming competition in the open sea, which has taken place since 1913, which over the years has seen amongst its competitors swimmers of an international standard. Among these we can mention in

2068-523: The word for "dawn" (Italian alba ), as Albaro hill is located east of the city of Genoa, where the sun rises. On 31 December 2015 there were 28,465 people living in Albaro, with a population density of 96.38 people per km . Albaro is located east of the center of Genoa. The neighborhood includes the southernmost part of a hill between the rivers Bisagno and Sturla which ends at the sea with high cliffs and small stony beaches, once accessible only through narrow crêuze  [ it ] . Nowadays along

2115-655: Was built in Romanesque style in 1172 by Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Mortara , and since 1935 it has housed the nuns of the Institute of Sisters of the Immaculata . In the church there is the grave of the founder Saint Agostino Roscelli . In ancient times there were other churches in Albaro which no longer exist owing to urban expansion. The best known of these was dedicated to Saints Nazario and Celso,

2162-612: Was officiated by the Canonici di San Giorgio in Alga , popularly called "Celestini", who remained there until 1668 when the congregation was dissolved by Pope Clement IX . It then passed on to the Order of Saint Augustine , who had to leave in 1797 due to Napoleonic laws which suppressed religious orders. It was then entrusted to secular clergy, becoming a branch of San Martino d'Albaro. It underwent several renovations and expansions, and became

2209-595: Was proposed by the Natura 2000 network of Liguria , for its particular nature and geology. The site is located between Boccadasse , Sturla, Quarto dei Mille , Quinto al Mare and Nervi . It has a very particular habitat formed by Posidonia oceanica (commonly known as Neptune Grass or Mediterranean Tapeweed) and coral formations. Among the animal species are the following fish: tentacled blenny , tompot blenny , seahorse , gray wrasse , brown wrasse , pointed-snout wrasse , east Atlantic peacock wrasse . Sturla had one of

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