Parish church of San Siro

The valuable quadrangular bell tower, with walls with a basal thickness of one and a half meters, is anterior to the church and, it is supposed, built for the defensive system of the coast, following a Carolingian rearrangement at the beginning of the 9th century. The original building was raised in the 15th century with a room that served as a belfry, the bell installed was engraved with the date 1409, another larger one was cast in 1513. A subsequent elevation was begun in the year 1615. The terminal dome it is an early nineteenth century work. The vast parish included five churches which later became parish, in the maximum of its propagation there were also fifty chapels established both by the community and by private individuals and two noble abbeys: one of the Da Passano lords and the other of the Zolasco lords. There were also two hospitals: the first in the village of Chiesanuova along the road to the Genoese area, the second in the

Marine village. In addition to the harmonious architecture, inside the parish there are artistic works of great value, mainly linked to the Genoese School. In part they were commissioned directly by the massari in charge of the material management of the body, others by private individuals who in the parish had the patronage of noble altars which, in the period of greatest expansion, reached the number of ten, positioned along the walls of the aisles. side.