Basilica di Nostra Signora Assunta — Sestri Ponente’s minor basilica, Genoa
The main church of Sestri Ponente, a minor basilica since 1951. Built 1610-1620, frescoes by Benso, Piola and Barabino, façade from 1928.
Sestri Ponente
Teatro Verdi in Sestri Ponente: the nineteenth-century theatre of Genoa’s west end
In the heart of Sestri Ponente, on the small Piazza Alfredo Oriani, stands one of the most solid nineteenth-century theatres of Genoa’s western reaches: the Teatro Verdi, built between 1898 and 1899 at the initiative of a small group of local entrepreneurs and dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi in 1901, in the immediate aftermath of the … Read more
