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Genoa to Cornigliano, Via Crowned single box rental offer, not prone to flooding because it placed at height greater than at street level, situated in a brand-new silos, protected by automated gate; access to the box is given by expanding transit lane as well as motorised damper. The box has inside water and sink over the switchboard in accordance with. Administrative expenses amounted to € 10 per month. Request € 120,00.Located 137 m above sea level on a hill behind Cornigliano, which is less than two kilometres, is reached by a winding and narrow road that leads to the shrine of our Lady Crowned, hence the name of the zone.From the square below the sanctuary, where you will find the 17th century oratory of our Lady of the assumption, you can enjoy a wide view over the final stretch of Valpolcevera, in particular on the area of fields, on the neighborhoods of Rivarolo and village of Sampierdarena and Belvedere, on the opposite side of the Valley.The Church of Santa Maria and San Michele Arcangelo Crowned village, formerly called Columnata, already existed in Roman times. Consisted of scattered houses on the Hill, along one of the routes from the sea of Cornigliano drew inward. With the building of the sanctuary, near the end of the 12th century, was named Santa Maria Incoronata, who later became simply Crowned.The Crowned, until the end of the nineteenth century predominantly agricultural area, famous for its vineyards, in the 20th century, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, saw a notable development, expanding towards Cornigliano across the southern slopes of the Hill, where there were summer residences of the most famous families of the Genoese aristocracy, including De Ferrari, Pallavicini and Brignole Sale.Just below the square of the sanctuary, on the slope of the Hill to fields, lies the Capuchin Convent, built in the 17th century and then enlarged and beautified in 1828 by the Marquis Alessandro Pallavicini.Along the road that climbs from Cornigliano, shortly before the sanctuary square, stands the imposing structure of the San Raffaele Institute, built in 1887 by the Duchess of Galliera as a shelter for elderly and chronically ill near his family villa (Villa De Ferrari-Galliera), which is also now used as a nursing home for the elderly (Villa Immacolata). The San Raffaele Institute, still operating today, belongs to the municipality of 1923 by Genoa.Crowned owes its notoriety to the prized white wine Crowned, also mentioned by the Giustiniani in 1535, but here the product already in previous centuries, when the monks of the Abbey of Sant'Andrea of Erzelli had introduced in the cultivation of the vine. This wine, which is defined by the Casalis "de ' most exquisite of Genoese possessions" is produced today, although in limited quantities than in the past, particularly in valletta San Pietro, which dates from Cornigliano to mount Guano, and distributed by Vinegrowers Co-operative by-Val Polcevera Coronata.