Villa Cambiaso
Palazzo Ferrero-Colonna-Cambiaso, commonly known as Villa Cambiaso, is a seicentesca villa that anchors Savona’s historic waterfront arc. Its modern stage sits on a site with fourteenth- or fifteenth-century roots, but the palace was elevated and deeply reworked by 1655, beginning a lineage that threaded Ferrero, Spinola, Colonna, and finally the Cambiaso family. The villa’s walls bear the imprint of late 18th- and early 19th-century shifts, including Napoleonic footsteps: French troops damaged the palace in 1796, and Napoleon himself is believed to have slept here the night between April 10 and 11. The same years brought visitors of momentous consequence, including Pius VII, who was imprisoned in Savona by Napoleone between 1809 and 1812. …
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