Santuario di San Francesco da Paola
The Santuario di San Francesco da Paola is best known for its maritime memory: a hilltop sanctuary dedicated to the Calabrian patron of navigators, set high above Genoa’s old port. The church, sometimes called the Santuario dei Marinai, was begun in the late 15th century after the Centurione family acquired land in 1487 to build a convent for the Minims, the order founded by Saint Francis of Paola. Tradition holds that the saint himself, while passing through Genova in 1483, indicated the hill as the site for a church to Jesus and Mary. The current form dates largely to the 17th century, renovated under the auspice of Veronica Spinola, then princess of Molfetta, with the contemporary complex including both the church and the convent. …
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