Religious site
Santuario della Madonnetta
The Santuario della Madonnetta is a Baroque Marian sanctuary that rises along the hillside between Castelletto and Righi, its name drawn from a legend of a benedicted alabaster Madonna statue gifted in 1650. Built as a home for Augustinian friars, the church was erected between 1695 and 1696, designed by the Imperian architect Giovanni Antonio Ricca, who later joined the order as a friar himself. The entrance forecourt features an octagonal sagrato paved with white and black pebbles, laid out in 1732 by Bartolomeo Storace, a striking early-18th-century detail that anchors the site visually in Genoa’s baroque imagination. …
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