Albenga Attractions

Albenga (5m/17ft; pop. 22,000) has a picturesque old town center, town walls and many towers which belonged to noble families. Other features of interest are the Romanesque cathedral (11-14th centuries; lower part of facade fifth century) with three Romanesque-Gothic naves; the small early Romanesque church of Santa Maria in Fontibus (13th century); the Museo Ingauno e Battistero (fifth century baptistery, Liguria's most important early Christian work) and a Roman shipping museum. Near the Via Aurelia is the Ponte Lungo, a medieval bridge 147m/161yd long over the former course of the River Centa. Beyond Albenga the rocky islet of Gallinara (90m/297ft), with the ruins of a sixth century Benedictine abbey, can be seen.