Pegli (Ligurian: Pêgi) is a neighbourhood in the west of Genoa, Italy. With other eighteen autonomous municipalities, in 1926 it ceased being independent and was merged into the municipality of Genoa.[1]
Pegli
Pêgi | |
|---|---|
 Pegli - Lungomare centrale | |
  Pegli Location in Italy | |
| Coordinates: 44°25′31″N 8°48′52″E / 44.42528°N 8.81444°E | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Liguria |
| Province | Province of Genoa |
| Comune | Genoa |
With a mild climate and a promenade, Pegli is mainly a residential area with four public parks and several villas and mansions. It is also known as a tourist resort with some hotels, camping and bathing establishments. Many restaurants and shops characterize the town, which is connected to central Genoa by railway, water bus and bus.
Notable residents
edit- Fabrizio De André - Italian singer and songwriter
- Renzo Piano - Italian architect
- Liliana Ross – Italian-born Chilean actress[2]
- Alberto Lupo - Italian Actor
- Gino Paoli - Italian recording artist
According to an oral tradition, on November 21, 1854, Giacomo Della Chiesa, later to become Pope Benedict XV, would have been born in Pegli, in the holiday palace of the Marquises Della Chiesa. In front of the palace, where he often stayed as a child and sometimes as an adult before his election to the papal throne, there is a small monument, whose inscription claims the birth of the future pope.[3] However more reliable sources say he was born in the main family palace, in via di Santa Caterina, in the center of Genoa.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ "R.D.L. 14 gennaio 1926, n. 74 - Aggregazione al comune di Genova di 19 Comuni limitrofi - Wikisource". it.wikisource.org (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-23.
- ^ "Actriz, directora y dramaturga: Liliana Ross fallece entre muestras de afecto de la industria y el amor de sus hijas". El Mostrador. 2018-06-11. Archived from the original on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
- ^ Info in www.pegli.com.
- ^ "Il pronipote di Benedetto XV: Il mio sogno è andare da Ratzinger" ("Benedict XV's great-nephew: my dream is to go to Ratzinger", article in la Repubblica April 22, 2005
- ^ Biography of Pope Benedict XV at the site of the Basilica of Santa Maria delle Vigne
External links
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