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| Savona, Part I. |
 First of all, I’ve to apologize for being absent for long.
In this article, which is a two-instalment one, I wish talk to you about Savona.
This town's medieval historical centre is the best preserved in Italy and in Europe it is second only to Aigues Mortes, in France.
The carruggi (medieval little alleys) are still paved with stones and walkable. Walking through them, it really seems to have turned the clocks back to the Middle Age.
Two medieval towers (the Torri del Brandale ) are still in good state.
The Priamar Fortress
This fortress covers with its ramparts, the promontory which was the first inhabited area in Savona. This “acropolis” is the Savo Oppidum Alpinum of which Livy wrote and it remained the nucleus and historical centre of the city until the Genoese attacked Savona and stifled its autonomy, ruining both the harbour, by filling part of it, and destroying the ancient centre on the hilltop of Priamar.
The original name of Priamar probably meant "Stone on The Sea" , a name which represented the relationship between the town and the "seastone".
The history of Savona started in the 4th century BEFORE CHRIST, when the tribe of Sabazias went from the inland to the sea and settled on the rock of Priamar. Titus Livy is the first writer who gave documentations about Savona's original civilization, as he informed that Hannibal’s brother, Magnus, utilized Priamar and the bay of the harbour as his stronghold in the year 205 Before Christ. So we know for sure that Savona and its harbour are at least 2200 years old.
Savona, which in the Roman age had a minor role compared to Vada Sabatia (now Vado Ligure), an important road junction, was to have little importance in history for many centuries until the first Medieval Age, when it returned to have an important role as harbour and a commercial centre. After the year 1000 the town was divided into three main quarters, the ancient one was on Priamar, the other two were in the old city.
Savona's most flourishing period was the 15th century, and this is partly due to the presence of TWO POPES coming from Savona: Pope Sixtus IV, from the Della Rovere family, and Pope Julius II, belonging to the same family. Like most Popes, they were patrons of art, in the next instalment I'm talking to you about Sistine Chapel, commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV, who also commissioned the famous Sistine Chapel in Rome. Not only the Popes, but also many rich and important families in Savona contributed to Savona's architectural splendour in the Renaissance.
From 1528, the year of the disastrous defeat inflicted on Savona by the Republic of Genoa, the buildings on the Priamar were progressively destroyed to make way for the construction of the monumental Fortress. The remains of some ancient buildings are still preserved within the construction of the Fortress, developed over the centuries atop the original sixteenth century settlement. There you can see the ruins of the old Cathedral, of the Gothic Loggia del Castello Nuovo and of the Palazzo del Commissario, which was a prison, where also Mazzini was jailed.
But today the Priamar area is undergoing complete reconstruction and is the site of the Civic Museum (Pinacoteca) which offers an important exhibition of the artistic development in Savona and works from the 16th to the 20th century, along with a valuable collection of local ceramics; you can also find the Museum of Archaeology, the Sandro Pertini Museum, containing valuable pieces of modern art, and the Renata Cuneo Museum, dedicated to the famous Savonese sculptress, Renata Cuneo, who died only recently.
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