Nostra Signora della Neve, Romanesque Revival church and shrine in La Spezia, Italy.

Nostra Signora della Neve is a church in La Spezia built in the Romanesque Revival style, featuring rounded arches, thick stone walls, and small window openings. The interior is sparsely lit by these limited openings, creating a distinctive quality of light throughout the space.

A wooden painting of the Virgin, kept in a house near Porta Biassa, survived the flooding of the Lagora stream; a chapel was built for it in September 1595. That chapel was demolished on 4 August 1864 for the Military Arsenal, and the image passed to the Duomo until 1881. The Salesians laid the first stone of the present church in 1897, possibly by Don Bosco himself; it was consecrated on 27 April 1901 and became a parish on 27 February 1910.

The name comes from the wooden painting of the Virgin, kept in a farmhouse where today the Military Arsenal stands; it survived the flooding of the Lagora stream and was moved here in 1881. The church was dedicated to Our Lady of the Snow by will of Blessed Michele Rua. The triumphal arch bears a Latin invocation asking the Virgin, whiter than snow, to watch over La Spezia.

The thick stone walls keep the interior cool during hot summer days, making it a comfortable refuge from the heat. Visitors should be prepared for dimmer lighting due to the small window openings throughout the building.

The two bell towers flanking the facade are false; the real campanile stands at the back of the right side, along Via Napoli. The facade's bands of yellow limestone from Romito and dark blue-brown stone from Biassa are laid in layers, as Ubaldo Mazzini noted.