Chiesa di San Ruffino

Beautiful deconsecrated church

A ruined church. As a place of FAI heart a few years ago

Lovely place .... shame the unsafe conditions of the church ...

History Known from a document dated 25 November 1248, an independent parish until 1475, when the Spinola, feudal lords of the area, incorporated it into the parish of Mongiardino Ligure due to the renunciation of the rector of the church. In 1647 it returned to be an independent parish at the behest of the bishop of Genoa Stefano Durazzo and was assigned to the Tortona priest Tomaso Morando, the only priest who accepted the assignment. The church was repaired many times since 1790. In 1890 the old church was demolished. Then the current church was designed by the Genoese architect Luigi Balbi and the agreed figure for the construction was 5,900 lire excluding the construction of the facade, the demolition and the new foundations, but the estimate of the total expenses reached 14 000 lire. The first stone was laid on June 26, 1898 and that of the bell tower on July 15, 1901, at this point the expenses had already reached 59,000 lire, excluding that the lime that had been prepared free of charge by the population of Cerendero. The works began under the supervision of the parish priest Agostino Tambutto and the church was consecrated on 17 July 1904 by the bishop of Genoa Edoardo Pulciano, in 1915 the bell tower was completed, in 1929 the interiors were decorated by the Turin painter Francesco Ponsetti who received a compensation of 30 000 lire, in 1936 the pavement was completed and in 1945 the pulpit was built, after the works had stopped from 1940 to 1945 for the war. In 1947 the engineer Maurizio Bruzzo was called, as ever wider cracks appeared in the church, but these were the first symptoms of an inexorable decay. The church remained accessible until 1979, when it was closed and never used again. Since October 2008 a collection of signatures in the Borbera valley of the "Friends of the Church of Cerendero" committee has led to the collection of approximately 4,000 signatures to save the church [1]. The church in 2008 was ranked eighth on the list with 4048 votes of "The places of the heart" organized by the Fund for the Italian Environment [2]. On February 18, 2009, a technical meeting took place in the church of Santa Maria della Cella in Genoa Sampierdarena with recovery projects and interventions. In March, a geological survey was carried out, then it was fenced and a long restoration will begin

Very particular. It is located practically in thin air next to a cemetery in use. You can see it from a distance even if the road that reaches it is not very easy to find, better to use a navigator. The construction is fascinating, visible only from the outside. The church door is barred from the inside and you can see something from the cracks. Next to it is the imposing rectory, now collapsing. If you look through the windows you seem to see a newly bombed house with decorated ceilings, oven and kitchen, stairs and bathroom. Thinking that someone lived there makes a little impression. In front there is a second house, smaller, still standing but in ruins. In a corner, now covered by branches, the fountain. I recommend seeing it in winter, in summer there are too many plants, you can't get very close.

A ruin! When it collapsed, too bad, even though I thought, given the decay, it was deconsecrated for many years ... instead it was abandoned in the 70s.

Seeing the ruin of the complex hurts the Heart. Think of the sacrifice of the builders, of the inhabitants who for years have tried to preserve, and, in the end, the abandonment and indifference of those who are children of those places and have done nothing .....