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Casarza Ligure is located in the Sestri Levante hinterland along the right side of the Petronio torrent. It is located among the base of the hills that are covered with olive groves and pine trees.
From this territory you can observe the Bracco street that intertwines halfway along the coast and after the town the streets takes you to the Church of San Giovanni Battista of Candiasco. Behind the main alter there is a triptych that portrays Battista with the Saints Archangel Michel and Peter. This piece of art was signed and dated 1498 by Giovanni Barbagelata.
On the hill you can see a residential area that makes up the Massasco settlement. Further ahead you can see San Pietro in Frascati and inside the church you can admire the work of art attributed to the school of Perin del Vaga, which portrays the Madonna with Baby Jesus, the offerer and the Saints Antonio Abate and Martino.
Today, the territory of Casarza Ligure gives hospitality to the various industrial initiatives that concerns this area and the efficient freeway networks. The administrative origin of the local government of Casarza Ligure dates back to the 18th century when the territory was home of the war between the powers of that time. In 1746, Genoa was governed by the Doge Gian Francesco Brignole Sale and it was then occupied by the Austrians and then they were defeated after the revolt triggered by Balilla’s gesture. In 1748, the Duke of Richelieu fixed his district in Sestri Levante and in Casarza he published a manifesto inviting all the inhabitants to pick up there weapons.
With the peace of Aquisgrana the territory of the Republic of Genoa was subdivided into governor’s, commissionership’s, captain’s and office’s of a podestà, but Casarza was never mentioned. After the French Revolution the Convention was signed in 1797 at Montebello, between Napoleon, the French Minister with the Republic of Genoa, and the Ligurian Deputies Michelangelo Cambiaso, Luigi Carbonera, and Gerolamo Serra,which provides according to article 3 that “each community will have its own town hall and each district will have its own Administration.”
Following this document the Ligurian Republic created a decree on April 26, 1798 that stated, the town hall of Casarza included in the 5th jurisdiction denominated “Gromolo and Vara.”
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