Sestri Ponente

Sestri Ponente is one of the most important districts of Genoa. It is located in the western zone of the city, between Cornigliano and Pegli.

The district shelters a small tourist port, a Hôpital, two cinemas and of theater, a cemetery and the airport " Cristophe Colomb".

Of strong population (approximately 50.000 inhabitants resident, in the Années 1970 there were 80.000 of them) and of notable factory construction, it is located partly in plain and partly in hills, the variation of altitude being sea level up to 450 m with the Sanctuaire of Notre Dame of Gazzo (or Sanctuary of Notre Dame of the Mercy of the Mont Gazzo).

On the heights behind Sestri, one defines geological division between the Alps and the Apennines (geographical division is more in the west, with the Col of Cadibona).

The transformation of this small agricultural center , tourist sailor and in industrial city corresponds to the development of the shipyards and the Sidérurgie between the end of the 19th century and the First World War.

History

The name Sestri drift of the popularization of the Latin Sextum , name of a village which probably appears at the 2nd century (after J.C.), at the place where the 6th milliary Borne was on the Roman Voie which started from Genoa.

There are not an information proven on the population of Sestri Ponente until the 15th century.

At the beginning of the 17th century, sight the importance of this borough, the Sénat of the République of Genoa detached it from Capitanat of Voltri and by a legislative decree of May 1st 1609 also constituted new Capitanat de Sestri with Juridiction on Pegli, Multedo and their villas.

The first Capitaine of the people elected in Sestri was the Patrice Andrea Spinola.

In 1926 the common of Sestri Ponente was removed by royal Décret and was agglomerated with 18 other communes in the Grande Genoa.

Sestri Ponente today

Sestri Ponente accommodates many marketing activities, concentrated in the via Sestri , recently restructured and completely pedestrian, center of the shopping of the west of the city; one finds there also the important shipyards Fincantieri where were built inter alia the ships of the company Costa Croisière, of the American group Carnival.

It is in the building sites of Sestri that the Transatlantique Rex was built, which in its time made the record of crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, gaining the distinction of the Ruban azure , and the large last transatlantic of which the Andréa Doria (which ran in front of the port of New York in 1956 following the éperonnage by the trading vessel Stockholm ) or twin " Raffaello " and " Michelangelo ", then disarmed.

External bonds

Seen satellite via Google de Sestri

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