The “Shrine of Nostra Signora della Guardia” is a Catholic place of pilgrimage and is located on the top of Mount Figogna (804 m asl), in the Municipality of Ceranesi, about 20 km from the city of Genoa, in the northwest of Italy.
It is the most important Marian shrine in Liguria.
The name “Guardia” in Italian means “watch” and the shrine is so called because the Mount Figogna, in the Middle Ages was a strategic observation post to control displacement of armies along Valpolcevera and ships in the sea in front of Genoa. From the esplanade in front of the shrine, in a clear day, you can view all the underlying Polcevera valley and part of the city of Genoa and the Ligurian Riviera (and also, but only in a very clear day, mainly in winter, also the skyline of the mountains of the French island of Corse).
The Shrine is the destination of pilgrimages from Genoa and surroundings and all over Italy. The worship has been disseminated all over Italy and also abroad, so many churches and shrines have been consecrated to “Nostra Signora della Guardia”.
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