a coast village of Liguria, Italy, in the province of Genoa, from which it is 36 m. S.W. by rail, 13 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (1901) 1985. It is a town of considerable antiquity, now decayed, and has an ancient church of S. Paragorio, once the cathedral, a Romanesque basilica dating from the 1 rth century, with interesting works of art. The diocese has been united with that of Savona.
See A. d'Andrade, Relazione dell' Ufficio Regionale per la conservazione dei monumenti del Piemonte e della Liguria (Turin, 1899), 100 seq.