Altitude: 85 m a.s.l.

Area: 12 sq km

Distance from Imperia: 10 km

Inhabitants: in 1881: 1317 - in 2017: 1151

Patron Saint Day: June 29th - San Pietro

Information: Municipality phone 0183 49212

Diano San Pietro has been one of the oldest settlements of the Diano valley and had political events identical to those of the neighboring villages.

Visit of the town

After parking the car in Piazza del Comune, go down under the loggia with seats and from there on the right under the other vault that now preserves only few traces of the frescoes of the devotional aedicule.

Further, on the left, is the gate that leads into the black-and-white-pebble paved churchyard of the parish church of San Pietro, decorated on the façade with a plaque carved with the expulsion of Lucifer from Heaven.  

The original church was built around the year 1000 and was at that time the most important in the valley, among the few of the time that were allowed to baptize in the adjacent octagonal baptistery.

The original church was completely demolished in the Baroque period to be replaced by the current building that has partially incorporated, to the left of the apse, the baptistery, of which it preserves the marble baptismal font.

Leave the churchyard through the vault to the left of the church and, back to the car, pass again in front of it, continuing then to the right along Via Saguato, on whose left edge you’ll encounter after five hundred meters a fortified palace with two hanging watch-towers at the edges.

Originally a Benedictine convent, then a fort, then a flour mill and finally a hydraulically operated olive oil mill, the building now houses a modern oil mill whose owner has preserved, visible through the railing of the loggia on the ground floor, antique agricultural tools and, resting on the external walls, the old grindstones of the bridge.

From there you can enjoy a wide panorama of the Diano Gulf.