Villa Cambiaso
Palazzo Ferrero-Colonna-Cambiaso, better known locally as Villa Cambiaso, is a jeweled thread in Savona’s historic fabric. Built in the early 1700s, the palace sits in a zone of the city once just outside its core, and it is today protected as Italian national heritage. The villa’s history is layered: its origins reach back to the 15th century, with a major enlargement and deep restructuring around 1655. In the late 18th century the property passed from the Ferrero line to the Spinola, then to the Colonna family by 1800, and in 1842 to Gaetano Cambiaso, the son of Bianca Maria Caterina Colonna. French troops damaged the palazzo in 1796, and the nights when Napoléon Bonaparte and later Pius VII spent time here are among the most storied episodes the walls witness. …
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