Pegli Explained

Pegli
Native Name:Pêgi
Settlement Type:Quartiere
Pushpin Map:Italy
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Mapsize:200
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Italy
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Italy
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Liguria
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Province of Genoa
Subdivision Type3:Comune
Subdivision Name3:Genoa

Pegli (Pêgi) is a neighbourhood in the west of Genoa, Italy.

With a mild climate and a sea promenade, Pegli is mainly a residential area with four public parks and several villas and mansions. It is also known as a tourist resort with some hotels, camping and bathing establishments. Many restaurants and shops characterize the town, which is connected to central Genoa by railway, water bus and bus.

Notable natives

the following lived in Pegli for a long time

According to an oral tradition, on November 21, 1854, Giacomo Della Chiesa, later to become Pope Benedict XV, would have been born in Pegli, in the holiday palace of the Marquises Della Chiesa. In front of the palace, where he often stayed as a child and sometimes as an adult before his election to the papal throne, there is a small monument, whose inscription claims the birth of the future pope.[2] However more reliable sources say he was born in the main family palace, in via di Santa Caterina, in the center of Genoa.[3] [4]

Notes and References

  1. News: Actriz, directora y dramaturga: Liliana Ross fallece entre muestras de afecto de la industria y el amor de sus hijas . . 2018-06-11 . 2018-07-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180614040946/http://www.elmostrador.cl/braga/2018/06/11/actriz-directora-y-dramaturga-liliana-ross-fallece-entre-muestras-de-afecto-de-la-industria-y-el-amor-de-sus-hijas/ . 2018-06-14 . live.
  2. http://www.pegli.com/benedettoxv_nascita.php Info in www.pegli.com
  3. http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2005/04/22/il-pronipote-di-benedetto-xv-il-mio.html?refresh_ce "Il pronipote di Benedetto XV: Il mio sogno è andare da Ratzinger" ("Benedict XV's great-nephew: my dream is to go to Ratzinger"
  4. http://www.basilicadellevigne.it/index.php/10-personaggi/26-benedetto-xv Biography of Pope Benedict XV