Region · 2 museums
Glass in Liguria
Altare, together with Murano, is one of the two great historic centres of Italian glass; along the coast, Albenga preserves precious Roman glass.
Glass museumAltare Glass Art Museum
Altare, SavonaItaly's other great glassmaking tradition
- Housed in the Art Nouveau Villa Rosa (1905)
- Glass art from 1650 to the present day
- Historic tools of the glassmaker's craft
Ancient glassMagical Transparencies – The Glass of Ancient Albingaunum
Albenga, SavonaRoman glass from ancient Albingaunum
- Roman glass from the 1st–3rd century AD
- From the excavations of the Albingaunum necropolis
- The celebrated cobalt-blue plate with putti