Albenga: the Roman city of the ten Ligurian towers

Founded by Romans on the Ligurian coast, Albenga houses an early Christian baptistery among Italy's best-preserved alongside ten medieval towers.

The Roman center, with its ten Ligurian towers, is comfortably explored on foot.

The Baptistery of Albenga, from the Fifth century, remains one of the best-preserved paleochristian buildings in Italy, with an original mosaic still visible in its cupola.

Just steps away, the ten medieval towers of Albenga, built by noble families as symbols of power, remain a rare example of a preserved medieval skyline in Liguria.

Continuing toward the port, one visits the Roman Naval Museum, which displays amphorae recovered from a Roman shipwreck found off the coast.

Toward evening, Albenga's historic center animates with restaurants serving traditional Ligurian cuisine amid well-preserved medieval alleys.

The Roman wreck discovered off Albenga, one of the best preserved ancient merchant ships in the Mediterranean, carried thousands of wine amphorae destined for Roman trade at the moment of its sinking.

The ten towers of Albenga, built between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by local noble families in mutual competition, remain a remarkably rare example of medieval skyline that has survived in Liguria.