Acqui Terme

History

Main sights

• Acqui Cathedral: Romanesque edifice on the Latin cross plan, built in the late 10th century and consecrated in 1067 to Santa Maria Assunta by bishop Guido. The façade has a portal sculpted by Antonio Pilacorte, a late 15th-century rose window and a 17th-century portico. The Gothic-style bell tower is from 1479. The interior houses a late 15th-century triptych by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Bermejo, and a Baroque altar of Saint Guido.
• The Palaeologi Castle, mentioned for the first time in 1056. It was rebuilt in the 15th century by Marquis William VII of Montferrat.
• Church of the Addolorata: also called San Pietro dates to 7th-century. It was almost entirely rebuilt in the 10th-11th centuries in Romanesque style, and attached to a Benedictine abbey. It was again renovated in the 18th century, and returned to a neo-Romanesque appearance in the 1930s.
• Church of San Francesco: rebuilt in 19th-century, stands adjacent to 15th century cloister of the former Franciscan convent.
• Church of the Madonnalta
• Sant'Antonio Abate
• Church of Madonna della Nieve

  Twin towns — sister cities

• Genoa, Italy
• Argostoli, Greece

  People

• Luigi Raimondi, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, cardinal, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
• Giulietto Chiesa, journalist and politician.
• Pierdomenico Baccalario, writer.
• Giovanni Mollo,, Capitano di Lungo Corso e Comandante di Navi da Crociera