The Church of Madonna delle Grazie was erected in 1266. It was rebuilt and extended in 1488, and has undergone numerous modifications and restoration works over the years. Its simple façade contains a balck stone portal, which is surmounted by the fresco of the Madonna Pace by the Alassian painter Alberto Beniscelli. Inside, there is a magnificent, typically Ligurian tiled floor, made up of marble and slate tiles.
The altarpiece above the eighteenth-century main altar is Giovanni Carlone’s Nativity of the Virgin Mary.
Places of Interest
Museums
- Museum of Natural Science c/o Salesian Institute “Madonna degli Angeli”
Winter time:
pre-holiday 17:00 / 19:00;
holiday 9:00 / 12:00
Summer time: (01.07 / 15.09):
tuesday / thursday 21:00 / 23:30; pre-holiday 17:00 / 19:00
Galleries
- Richard West Gallery
at Biblioteca Viale Hanbury - Levi Gallery
at Palazzo Morteo
Libraries
- Public Library "R. Deaglio"
Piazza Airaldi e Durante - English Library
at Biblioteca Viale Hanbury - Library fraz. Moglio
Via Mazzini 12 - Moglio d'Alassio
Archeological sites
- Along the Roman road connecting Alassio to Albenga, we can admire many remains dating from the Roman times as well as an early building of the 9th century, the Church of Sant’Anna ai Monti, finely restored in the 60’s.
Churches
Architectural and Monumental sites
- Tower of Vegliasco
- Remains of the Santa Croce Tower
- Medieval remains near the Sanctuary od the Madonna della Guardia
- Sant’Ambrogio Parish Church
- Madonna del Vento Chapel (16th century façade)
- Saracen Tower (1576)
- English Library (built at the beginning of the 20th century).
Historical characters
- Father Francesco Maria Giancardi: first historian from Alassio. He is the author of (Imprese d’Alassio” in 1653 and he is the historian of most sanctuaries of Liguria. He died in 1970.
- Gerolamo Gastaldi: Secretary of the Republic of Genoa, plenipotentiary Minister, he became famous for his political testament (18th century).
- Luigi Jacopo Grassi: archeologist and historian, he illustrated the bronze tables of the Polcevera (19th century).
- Sergio Quinzio: philosopher, writer, Bible expert; he died on March 22nd, 1995.