Piazza Dante is the nineteenth-century center of Oneglia, the reference point of the city from which the main streets of the town branch off. One of these is via Bonfante with its arcades and elegant shops is quite crowded with young Imperiesi especially on Saturday afternoons. Piazza Dante is overlooked by the "Kremlin" palace, the former municipal building of Oneglia, and is framed by a row of neoclassical arcades.

Often chaotic, this square is the pulsating heart of Imperia, sporting a pretty central fountain and framed by graceful ochre-coloured neoclassic buildings, in the typical style of the house of Savoy. Oneglia was in fact the port of the kingdom of Piedmont for many centuries and the architecture reflects it. Around it are some historical shop widows, like those of Caffè Pasticceria Piccardo, and some unusually shaped, large green kiosks, from another era.