Elegant tourist center that he/she closes to rising the line of coast denominated ligure "Coast of the Flowers", abandoned on the ample inlet to arc that extends him among head Apples and head Saint Cross (bay of the Sun). Its old nucleus lines up him along the sea, while the modern part of the city rises more to the inside, to the slopes of the high ground covered with ulivi and on which am Moglio and Solva. Mysterious they are his/her origins: the legend wants her/it founded by Adelasia, hypothetical Brass daughter The of Saxony and bride of Aleramo, his/her preceptor, with which it ran away from the court to find shelter in one of the most seductive angles of the Coast, where you/he/she would have had origin the same stock of the Aleramicis. The foundation of the primitive nucleus would have happened according to others from the Benedictines, for other anchor from the inhabitants of an ancient Castrum Tiracii, castle set to watch of the Tirasso Mountain. In fact, toward the end of the century IX, the inhabitants installed him on the surrounding high ground transferred him on the beach, devoting himself/herself/itself to the activities to marinate.
Feud of the Benedictines of the Gallinara (century XI), it was a villa sold in 1303 to the Commune of Albenga, from which he/she succeeded in becoming emancipated only himself/herself/themselves to the beginning of the century XVI. Subject to frequent piratical raids, in the 1521 said beginning to the construction of the boundaries of surrounded and in 1528, with 18 galleons, it participated with Genoa in the war against French. Stamped definitely in the January 1540 with action of the Senate of the Republic and erect in podesteria, development a notable commercial activity weaving relationships and exchanges with Spain, Germany and the Flanders, and in 1571 it participated, with an own fleet, to the battle of Lepanto. Subdued for brief time to the Savoias (... during the 1625 invasion), he/she remained under Genoa up to the Napoleonic conquest and it was attached to the Kingdom of Sardinia after the Congress in Vienna.
The parish one of Sant'Ambrogio, with tall bell tower cuspidato, goes up again to the century XI; the building, rebuilt and widened in Renaissance epoch between 1455 and 1507, it has the façade referred in 1896 with central portal in the 1511 slate. The inside Baroque preserve painted of Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari Madonna, Saints and purgative souls, of Giulio Benso Saint Lucy of Giovan Battista Castle Pentecoste.
To the XVI century they belong a tower on the shore of the sea and lines of the ancient boundaries, the convent of the Cappuccinis (in the inside a copy of Macrino of dawn and a Crucifix in ivory of the Seven hundred one and the building Brea with beautiful portal.
The oratory of Saint Caterina in Alexandria goes up again, in the actual forms, to the century XVII and preserve in the inside it is yours wooden of the Maragliano. Also seventeenth-century I am the convent of Sant'Andrea, the church of the Madonna of the People, the oratory of Sant'Erasmo and the building Scofferi; eighteenth-century it is the building I will Fit with iron de Gubernatis, restored in last century. The church of the Madonna of the Graces, in the zone Castle, erect in 1266, you/he/she has been reconstructed in 1488 and rehandled in following epoches. They remain, to rising of head Saint Cross, the ruins of the church of Sant'Anna to the Mountains, the primitive parish of Alassio erected along the Roman street around Thousand.
It preserves part of the ancient structures the Chiesina of Saint Cross, preceded by portico, built in the century XI-XII on the homonym head. The sanctuary of the Madonna of the Watch on the Tirasso mountain (century XII) you/he/she was rehandled in the century XVI and XVII. In the place Vegliasco is preserved a circular tower of the century XVI, ancient place of defense in dominant position the sea. On the hills among Alassio and Albenga he is able ripercorrere a line of 5 kms of the the ancient one by Roman Julia Augusta, placed side by side by some sepulchral monuments of the epoch. Known as climatic center and of villeg giatura since the end of the eight hundred, Alassio has seen to strengthen with constant rhythm his/her tourist and hotel equipments, that have favored a continuous increase of the presences, especially in Germany. Particularly you develop they are also the connected activities with the tourism and in particolar way the building industry (recent it is the modernization of the hotels), the commerce and the craftsmanship (workmanship of the wood and the fer ro and wrapping of articles of he/she adorns chin).
Agriculture has remained anchored to the traditional activities (kind to the cultivation of the ulivo). I bring tourist, behind the head Saint Cross, with offshore dike with bench of 500 ms toward north, two docks of under flow and 5 wharfs. It prepares of around 400 places boat. The "muretto" of Alassio: an expensive meeting to the tourist demonstrations, stings of reference forced for celebrating the summer rite of the bathing vacations. After halves August the season reaches its clou with the traditional election of "Miss Muretto." The "muretto", a commune wall of support of the embankment of the impending public gardens, is famous for the hundred tiles in ceramics where the signatures are immortalized autografe of so many celebrities that has sojourned to Alassio. We find Hemingway and Soldiers, Charlie Chaplin and Macario, the most known superstars of the song, the soccer players Italian champions of the world (Spain 1982), that came in withdrawal to Alassio. Recently the sculptural group of the fidanzatinis of Peynet has been assistant, sat on the muretto.