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The topography of the place had a great change in the mid-19th century, when the Genoa-Turin railway was built. It was necessary to correct and dam the frequently-flooding
Polcevera river, eliminating the existing bend. A new path for the torrent bed was dug for about 500 m, by cutting the base of
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In the second half of the 19th century, the area, formerly agricultural, became industrial, with the establishment of several companies (the most important were the
Foundries Bruzzo and the soap factory Lo Faro). In 1926, together with other 18 municipalities, Bolzaneto joined the municipality of
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Bolzaneto was a small village on the left side of the river Polcevera, near a wide bend of this. At the beginning of the second millennium the village was a simple group of houses around the church of N.S. della Neve (Our Lady of Snow). The town had been subject to the
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hill there were, in the past centuries, many villas and palaces used as summer residences by the noble and rich
Genoese families. Some of these survived today, although now surrounded by factories and sheds. These buildings, restructured, are used as schools, offices or private houses.
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Among these Villa
Carrega (17th century) and Villa Garibaldi (now both used as nursery schools) and, on the right bank of Polcevera the Palaces Rivarola and Pareto. Near the hamlet of Cremeno is the Villa Cambiaso, which was the summer residence of Giovanni Battista Cambiaso, who was
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Bolzaneto, at the left side of Polcevera valley, are two fortresses, which are part of the external fortresses of Genoa: the “Fort Diamante” and the fort named “Fratello Minore”. At the right side of valley, on Mount Figogna (804 m), is the
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The first Church of N.S. della Neve was built in the 14th century as a chapel depending by the parish of San Felice of
Brasile, restored in seventeenth century and completely rebuilt in 1855 when it became the seat of the parish.
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As mentioned above, the monastery and the church, due to the work to embank the torrent
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The donation of the land is documented by a
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Fortresses called "I Due Fratelli" (The Two Brothers) were two fortresses said, referring to their position, "Major Brother" and "Minor Brother". They were built by the
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on the left side was built, on which the railway runs. Gradually many houses were built up in the old stream-bed, thus forming the present town of Bolzaneto.
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civil and religious authority of Brasile until 1854, when the municipal headquarters and the parish were transferred to Bolzaneto.
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in 1814. The first fortress, shaped as a simple tower, was demolished in 1932 to create an antiaircraft position, the second one (
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that in 2001 was in the international headlines, when there many protesters (arrested during the disturbances occurred at the
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was built on and at the beginning of eighteenth century the church and the monastery had been completely restructured.
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the Murta hill upstream the monastery of San Francesco (that so passed from right to left bank of the stream) and an
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had to leave the monastery and the church was entrusted to the diocesan clergy until 1896, when they could return.
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