Cornigliano Ligure is widely known for its imposing ILVA steel plant, workers’ struggles and for being a proud, working class neighborhood.
Few people know that before the Fordist era, Cornigliano was a pleasant seaside town that hosted the new productive middle-class of the end of the 19th century and, even before, was a place of leisure for the Genoese aristocratic families, of which we can still admire the monumental villas now fully integrated into the urban structure.