Vacanze Savona

The city of Savona, "OPPIDUM" as remembered by Tito Livio, has its first origins with the Bronze Age on the hill of the Priamar with the arrival of the Liguri Sabazi that, over the centuries, exploited its dominant position on the coast with the construction of a port in the natural creek that made it one of the most competitive in the commercial field
SAVONA name dates back to the IV century B.C. The city spread in the Byzantine era. In the Middle Ages period, the city, is one of the most active in trade with its merchants scattered around the Mediterranean basin, East, England and Flanders marking the beginning of the antagonism with the city of Genoa. In 1327 Savona got the chance by Ludovico il Bavaro to coin money but at the beginning of the fourteenth the first symptoms of the crisis appeared in Savona, which reaches its climax with the appearance of the Plague, which in just four months decimates the population.
In the second half of the '400 family Della Rovere gave the Church two Popes, Giulio II and SistoIV that brought to the city a period of great revival, in the culture and economy fields, the city becomes an attractive referent point for artists and intellectuals, the atria of the buildings were renovated and decorated with fine materials such as slate and marble and the were plastered.A clear testimony of the main artists is Palazzo della Rovere. In the first half of '500 Savona lost political independence following an invasion by the Genoese that was not just limited to an authoritarian regime but wanted to settle by destroying significant areas of cities such as Santa Maria di Castello proceeding to the landfill of the port and erecting the fortress of the PRIAMAR, causing another period of crisis.
In the seventeenth century Savona began to be known for the production of its ceramics art "Blu Vecchia Savona", thanks to this the city of Savona will be known around the world. In the eighteenth century, Savona was the scene of major battles and conquests by the Piemontesi and, then, in 1796 Napoleone Bonaparte moved to Savona with his headquarters.
Thanks to the efforts of the prefect Chabrol de Volvic the foundations for the renewal linked to population and industrial growth have been set. This was followed by the opening of new roads, railways and expansion of the port. The economic growth begins in the 1860s setting the foundations for an industrial city that will see its peak in ‘900, they erected new districts according to the standards of the 1856 master plan, beautiful buildings, boulevards and gardens that transformed the city into an elegant living room of the century.
The World War II, with its repeated bombardments caused serious damage to the city, but Savona proved its ability to reclaim its original primacy of industrial centre and Strategic Mediterranean Sea node right after the War.
Savona is currently one of the largest Italian commercial and tourist ports.
It developed throughout the entire Province a growing tourist activity that brought the Riviera delle Palme in the first places of the world. Since 2003, the city has a modern maritime station (Palacrociere); nodal point for cruise ships in the Mediterranean Sea for Costa Cruises.