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Seminario Vescovile
Religious site

Seminario Vescovile

📍 Savona, Liguria🏗 1888-01-01🖊 Alessandro Martinengo🏛 Italian national heritage

The Seminario Vescovile is a working Catholic seminary that rises on a hillside block just behind Savona’s city center, in the Villetta quarter. Built in 1888 and designed in an eclectic style by architect Alessandro Martinengo, it forms a substantial complex organized around a central cloister, with four wings extending to the east and west. The northern and eastern sides are bounded by a generous park, offering a calm, panoramic setting that was chosen to be detached from the bustle of late-19th-century urban growth. Inside, the building houses a theological library and a public quadreria, which preserves a number of carefully regarded paintings. …

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