San Fedele (or Sanfè in Ligurian) is a hamlet of about 1,000 inhabitants in the municipality of Albenga, in the Province of Savona, bordering the fraction of Lusignano.

The first traces of the community are found in 1288 in the statutes of Albenga, while the church dedicated to Saints Simone il Cananeo and Giuda Taddeo, protectors of the Republic of Genoa, dates back to 1347.

Many of the noble families of Albenga built villas in San Fedele, such as Casa Calvi, to be able to holiday in the countryside for fear of malaria.

Then the Ursulines nuns arrive who give life to the girls' boarding school in the Borea-Ricci villa operating in education according to the principles of the Catholic religion.

In this period the parish priest was Don Tomaso Raimondo who wrote 6 notebooks of local chronicles, from which it was possible to deduce the history of the last century of San Fedele.

That day there were women with sticks and equipped with stones that broke the tables of the Modern Cafe and the glass of a photography advertisement, and also tried to damage the post office.

A noteworthy anecdote is that of the American soldier who rushed to Monte Bignone and fled to San Fedele, where he was captured and taken to the central square of Albenga as a trophy.

Also Bruno Andrea Giulio, arrested on 12/30/1944 in nearby Lusignano and murdered the next day in San Fedele by a German soldier and an Italian collaborator who have never been identified.

[2] In the cemetery a chapel was built with the bodies of the martyrs of freedom, with the epigraph in memory: Sfidarono i tempi insidi di oppressione: vendetta.

XI - VI MCMXLVIIn the second post-war period, small industrial, artisanal and commercial plants were built, as social housing complexes and with special agreements.

In an article in the weekly Pro Familia of 1909, the structure was advertised as follows: Colleggio Female Boarding School in S. Fedele d'Albenga, directed by the Ursulines of Jesus.

Excellent religious and civil education - Study courses in Italian and French given by authorized teachers - Preparation for complementary and normal licenses; according to government programs - music, drawing, painting, etc ... Splendid, elevated position, view of the sea, healthy air, mild climate, moderate straight line.

In recent years the complex underwent a major expansion, creating new classrooms, new rooms and even an internal church in a modern style not in line with the existing one, which however is preserved.

A massive arched portal with ashlar treatment leads into the main square to the old house and to the tower, where the chapel of San Giovanni Battista and a short side of the destroyed villa of Piambellino overlook.

Between the end of the 16th century and the first half of the 18th century the brothers of the noble Ingauna Costa family, Pier Francesco (1545-1625) apostolic nuncio to the court of Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy, and bishop of Savona, Alessandro (1555-1623) ), abbot commentary at the atrium of Santa Maria and San Martino on the Gallinara Island, Ottavio 1554-1639 holder of the General Depositary of the Apostolic Chamber under the reign of Gregory XIV and Innocent IV as well as a banker, and the son of this Pier Francesco (1591-1653 ) bishop of Albenga, committed many of their resources to build a place of otium that was a link between the utilitas and venustas with ancient marbles, paintings, precious and much more, to create a cultured environment.

We are fortunate that the historian Gio Ambrogio Paneri provides us with an admired description of the villa: San Fedele with a hundred fires of beautiful ornate townhouses, with a large palace of ancient jeweled statues and precious adorned paintings to which it is spacious and pleasant annex garden, with vague compartments of land, from limpid and crystalline irrigated sources, of the lords Pier Francesco, Ottavio and Alessandro Costa.

The marked poor state of maintenance of the house, which was defined already dilapidated in the mid-nineteenth century, was the main cause of its collapse, although it is likely that the last end occurred following the earthquake of 1887.

[6][7] In 1832 the "Senatorial Manifesto" was issued by the King, according to which the dead would no longer be able to bury themselves in churches or villages for health reasons; a land is chosen for the burial outside the town.

In July 1945 the parish gave free land to the Municipality of Albenga for the construction of a chapel capable of housing fifteen corpses of the Martyrs of the Foce.