And binder tourist center that closes to Levant the from Liguria feature of coast called "Coast of the Flowers", carefullied lay down on the wide cove to arc that extends between head Apples and Saint head Croce (bay of the Sun). Its old nucleus is aligned along the sea, while the modern part of the city rises more to the inside, to the slopes of the heights covered of ulivi trees and on which they are Moglio and Solva. Mysterious they are its origins: the legend wants founded it from Adelasia, hypothetical Brass daughter of Sassonia and the spouse of Aleramo, its tutor, with which it escaped from the court in order to more find shelter in one of the seductive angles of the Coast, where would have had origin the same one stirpe of the Aleramici. The foundation of the primitive nucleus would have happened others from the Benedictines second, for other anchor from the inhabitants of an ancient Castrum Tiracii, castle place to guard of the Tirasso Mount. In fact, towards the end of century IX, the local inhabitants on the surrounding heights moved themselves on the beach, dedicating themselves to the activities in to the sea.
Feudo of the Benedictines of the Gallinara (century XI), was one villa sold in 1303 to the Common one of Albenga, from which it succeeded emancipar to the beginning of century XVI. Subject to frequent piratical incursions, in the 1521 said beginning to the construction of walls of town-walls and in 1528, with 18 galleons, participated with Genoa to the war against the French. Freed definitively in January 1540 with action of the Senate of the erected Republic and in podesteria, development a remarkable business activity interlacing them relationships and exchanges with Spain, Germany and the Fiandre, and in 1571 it participated, with an own fleet, to the battle of Lepanto. Submitted for short time to the Savoia (... during the invasion of 1625), it remained under Genoa until of Napoleon conquest and was annexed to the Reign of Sardinia after the Conference of Vienna.
The parochial one of Sant' Ambrogio, with high cuspidato bell tower, laughed them to century XI; the building, rebuilt and widened in renaissance age between 1455 and 1507, have the facade refered in 1896 with portal center them in slate of 1511. The baroque inside conserve painted of Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari Madonna, Knows and spirits to you laxatives, of Giulio Saint Benso Lucia di Giovanni Batiste Castle Pentacost.
To XVI the century they belong one tower on the river of the sea and features of the ancient ones wall, the convent of the Cappuccini (in the inside one copy of Macrino d' Alba and a Crocifisso in ivory of the 1700's and the Brea palace with beautiful portal.
The oratory of Caterina Saint of Alexandria laughed them, in the shapes puts into effect them, to century XVII and conserve in the inside is your wodeen of the Maragliano. Also seicenteschi they are the convent of Sant' Andrea, the church of the Madonna of the People, the oratory of Sant' Erasmo and the Scofferi palace; of 700' is the palace Ferrero de Gubernatis, restored in the past century. The church of the Madonna of Thanks, in zone Castle, erected in 1266, has been reconstructed in 1488 and adapt in successive ages. They remain, to Saint Levant of head Croce, the ruins of the church of Sant' Anna to Mounts, the parochial primitive of Alassio erected along the Roman way around to the Thousands.
Conserve leaves of the ancient structures the Chiesina di Santa Croce, preceded from porch, constructed in the Xi-xii century on the head omonimo. The sanctuary of the Madonna of the Guard on the Tirasso mount (century XII) was adapt in i century XVI and XVII. In Vegliasco locality circular tower of century XVI, ancient place of defence in dominant position is conserved one the sea. On hills between Alassio and Albenga an ancient feature of 5 km can be travelled over again of via Roman Julia Augusta, placed side by side from some burial monuments of the age. Famous like climatic center and of holiday sin from the end of the 1800's, Alassio has seen to upgrade with constant rhythm its tourist and hotel equipments, that they have favorite a continuous increase of the presences, especially from the Germany. Particularly the activities connected with the tourism and in particular building way developed are pure the industry (recent are the modernization of lodge), the commerce and the handicraft (working of the wood and the iron, and article confection of dresses mento).
Agriculture is remained berthed to the traditional activities (species to the cultivation of the ulivo). Tourist port, to behind of Saint head Croce, with outer dam with dock of 500 m towards north, two wharves of under flow and 5 wharves. It has approximately 400 places boat. The "wall" of Alassio: a meeting beloved to the tourist manifestations, obliged point of reference in order to celebrate the summery ritual of the bathing vacations. After the half of August the season catches up its clou with the traditional election of "Miss Wall". The "wall", a common overhanging supporting wall of earthwork of the garden publics, is celebre for the hundreds of floor tiles in ceramics where the autograph companies of many celebrities are eternate that have sojourn to Alassio. We find Hemingway and Soldati, Charlie Chaplin and Macario, the most famous divi of the song, the Italian soccer player champions of the world (Spain 1982), that they came in withdrawal to Alassio. Recently it has been added the sculptural group of the lover’s of Peynet, seated on the wall.