Santa Margherita Ligure is sure a village of ancient origins. The first document that of it speaks specifically laughed them XII to the century: here it comes indicated like "Saint Margherita di Pescino". In the centuries succeeded to you two are formed distinguished villages, Pescino, exactly, and Court. The baroque closing, a high moment of the from Liguria splendor, has made to rise also remarkable monuments here. Most obvious, what it gives a tone to the entire citizen, it is Centurione villa. Its construction laughed them, for initiative of the Durazzo, to the hardly posterior years to 1560 and "is signed", in all probability, from great architect Galeazzo Alessi. Of the same age the castle situated close to the sea. Remarkable the churches between which the Basilica of S. Margherita di Antiochia, that it encloses in its baroque structure works of genovesi masters (De Ferrari, Castle, Ponsonelli, Carlone).