Gian Domenico Cassini was born in Perinaldo on June 8th 1625. He attended the prestigious Jesuit institute in Genoa and then Bologna where at the young age of 25 he became professor of astronomy at this illustrious University. His intense research activity on the comets, the sun, the moon, Mars, Jupiter and the Saturn’s moons open the doors to France. Colbert, a minister of King Louis the Fourteenth of France, invited him become a part of the Académie de Sciences and he remained in France until his death on September 14th 1712.

It is right here in Perinaldo, today also called Poggio delle Stelle, The Star Hillock, that an Astronomy Observatory was built in 1989 in honor of the great astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini. The Observatory is open to the public all year long and visitors can study interesting astronomical bodies: exhilarating walks among the craters of the moon, Venus, Mars the red planet, Jupiter and its four major moons, Saturn, Uranus. You can also learn to discover and recognize astronomical bodies with the naked-eye, guided by a laser, travelling among the stars along the Milky Way for a truly ‘astronomical’ evening.  

Piazza Mons. Rossi, 1
Tel 348 5520554 Fax 0184 672021
astroperinaldo@gmail.com
www.astroperinaldo.it

Opening hours: consult observation calendar on the website  
Tickets: € 6,00 discounted €4,00