Pegli

Quartiere in Liguria, Italy

Pegli Pêgi
Quartiere
Pegli - Lungomare centrale
44°25′31″N 8°48′52″E / 44.42528°N 8.81444°E / 44.42528; 8.81444
Country	Italy
Region	Liguria
Province	Province of Genoa
Comune	Genoa

Pegli (Ligurian: 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

Fabrizio De André - Italian singer and songwriter
Renzo Piano - Italian architect
Liliana Ross – Italian-born Chilean actress^[1]

the following lived in Pegli for a long time

Alberto Lupo - Italian Actor
Gino Paoli - Italian recording artist

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]

References

^ "Actriz, directora y dramaturga: Liliana Ross fallece entre muestras de afecto de la industria y el amor de sus hijas". El Mostrador. 2018-06-11. Archived from the original on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
^ Info in www.pegli.com.
^ "Il pronipote di Benedetto XV: Il mio sogno è andare da Ratzinger" ("Benedict XV's great-nephew: my dream is to go to Ratzinger", article in la Repubblica April 22, 2005
^ Biography of Pope Benedict XV at the site of the Basilica of Santa Maria delle Vigne