The Nisso-Ligure Baroque route visits 80 of the most beautiful monuments, sacred and secular, of a priceless architectural heritage: chapels, churches, palaces etc. dating from the end of the sixteenth to the beginning of the 18th century.
Born in Italy, baroque art was poorly received by the France of Louis XIV, except for the Alpine border areas, then under the control of the Comtes de Savoie, where this new style soon took root through the construction of new churches, internal redesigns according to the new aesthetic canons, orders for monumental church organs from the Italian masters and an abundance of palaces constructed by the nobility and wealthy merchants: this was the start of an extraordinary heritage.
