Seminars and company events
Villa Cambiaso takes business meetings, corporate events and conferences for more than 100 people indoors and over 200 in its park. The house is a historic residence in the center of Savona, on the Ligurian coast, also recorded as Palazzo Ferrero Colonna Cambiaso, and companies can choose between its frescoed reception rooms and a modern hall with a more neutral feel.
The two settings suit different formats. The frescoed rooms on the main floor give weight to a board dinner, an awards evening or a press presentation, while the modern hall, which holds more than 100 guests, works for a plenary session or a seated lunch and opens onto a large patio with direct access to the garden. The villa also hosts exhibitions, concerts, theatre and dance, as well as photo shoots, film, music videos and advertising productions, so it is used to crews and technical set ups.
Weddings and receptions
Couples can marry in a civil ceremony inside the villa or in the park, under the procedures of the Comune di Savona, or hold a religious service in the family chapel. The chapel is consecrated and keeps a privileged altar from the 1600s. Receptions follow in the halls or outdoors. The same spaces are booked for birthdays, graduation parties, celebrations of a birth, first communions and confirmations.
Rooms and capacities
Guests enter through the Fountain Hall, then climb a slate staircase to the Salone delle Feste on the main floor, lit by a Murano glass chandelier. The frescoed rooms have colored glass windows. Indoors, the villa states room for more than 100 people, and the modern hall alone takes over 100. Outside, the park of more than 2,000 m² holds over 200 guests. It is laid out as an Italian garden with lawns divided by paths, old Lebanese cedars, a central gazebo in a 1930s style and two galleries covered in wisteria aligned with the entrance.
Catering
The villa has no exclusive caterer. Hosts choose from its list of recommended caterers or propose their own.
History and setting
By 1530 the site was a country house with a garden owned by the Ferrero family, opposite the church of San Lazzaro. In 1655 the Genoese noble Luca Spinola had it rebuilt and raised. Napoleon Bonaparte spent the night of April 10 to 11, 1796 here before the battle of Montenotte. Around 1800 the house passed to Paolo Vincenzo Agostino Colonna, and on September 2, 1809 Pope Pius VII prayed in its chapel, which he went on to grant three privileges. The fountain in the entrance hall was a papal gift for the 1822 marriage of Bianca Maria Caterina Colonna and Marquis Giovanni Battista Cambiaso, and the villa went to the Cambiaso family in 1842. Restored from 1928, it was sold in August 1986 to the artist Pio Vintera and reopened the following year. It still runs a cultural program of book talks, poetry evenings and exhibitions.
Getting there
The villa is at Via Torino 10 in Savona. The Via Piave car park is about 150 meters away, and its pedestrian exit on Via Piave leads to the entrance in a short walk.
