Italy Guide
Liguria
Piazza Banchi
Heading west from Campetto on Via degli Orefici brings you out into a thriving commercial zone centred on Piazza Banchi, a tiny enclosed market square of secondhand books, records, fruit and flowers which was once the heart of the medieval city. The little church of San Pietro in Banchi, overlooking the square, was built in the sixteenth century after a plague; with little money to spare, the city authorities sold plots of commercial space in arcades around the church terrace in order to fund construction of the main building.