Celle Ligure

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Celle Ligure
Comune di Celle Ligure
Celle Ligure
Celle Ligure
Coat of arms of Celle Ligure
Location of Celle Ligure
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UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
17015
Dialing code019
Websitewww.comune.celle.sv.it

Celle Ligure (

Ligurian: Çelle) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Savona in the Italian region Liguria, located about 30 kilometres (19 miles) west of Genoa and about 8 kilometres (5 miles) northeast of Savona
.

It borders the comuni of: Albisola Superiore, Stella, and Varazze. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").[4]

Main sights

  • Parish church of San Michele Arcangelo (1645). It houses a polyptych by
    Perin del Vaga
    from 1535
  • Pseudo-Romanesque church of Nostra Signora della Consolazione (18th century)
  • Bregalla Tower (11th through 16th centuries)

International relations

Celle Ligure is

twinned
with:

People

Francesco della Rovere, later Pope Sixtus IV, was born in Celle in 1414.

References

  1. ^ "Celle Ligure, il nuovo sindaco è Caterina Mordeglia: Zunino battuto di 317 voti - IVG.it". 27 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. Istat
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  4. ^ "Liguria" (in Italian). Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  5. ^ "Stadt Celle". www.celle.de. Retrieved 2010-01-05.

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