Santuario della Madonnetta
The Santuario della Madonnetta stands as a Baroque Marian sanctuary perched above the city, its name derived from the Madonna statue entrusted to the care of Genoa’s devout in the 1650s. Built between 1695 and 1696 for the Augustinian monks, the church was designed by the Imperian architect Giovanni Antonio Ricca, known as il Vecchio, who later joined the order. Its austere exterior opens onto an octagonal sagrato paved with small white and black cobbles, a detail laid out in 1732 by Bartolomeo Storace. The site itself is set along the hillside path called the crêuza della Madonnetta, a route that links Castelletto and Righi and is reachable today by the Zecca–Righi funicular, with the Madonnetta stop serving visitors. …
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