Considered one of the largest squares in Genoa, it is surrounded by numerous historic or "revisited" buildings: from the beautiful Palazzo della Borsa in Baroque style, to the Palazzo Ducale where the Doge of Genoa lived, to the Carlo Felice Theatre, renovated and revised by Aldo Rossi The only Genoese theater at the moment to have the largest mechanical stage machine in Italy..
7 min
One of the most beautiful historic squares in Genoa is located exactly under the windows of our home. The area, initially cited as "Campus Sarzanni"...
4 min
Porta Soprana is one of the many access gates to the medieval city of Genoa. The other gates that are worth a visit are Porta Siberia (in Porto Antico), Porta di Vacca (between Via del Campo and Via
Prè) and Porta di Santo Stefano (also called Porta degli Archi) located behind the Brignole station.
4 min
The Cathedral of San Lorenzo is one of the most important religious buildings in Genoa, consecrated in 1118, but built only from the 12th century. Around 1230 a profound renovation of the building was decided, in Gothic style. Thus the façade began from the lower part characterized by the three Gothic portals. In 1296 it suffered a major fire, which led to its renovation.
8 min
The church of San Pietro in Banchi is a religious building located in Piazza Banchi in the Molo district. dating back to the end of the sixteenth century, it was built to replace a religious building destroyed by the war between the Guelphs and Ghibellines. It was financed with the rent of the underlying shops.
11 min
Picturesque square 2 minutes from our home joined tothe church of Carignano (10 min) by the eighteenth-century bridge, Ponte Carignano, and located 400m from Porta Soprana, it was one of the main and largest squares within the walls. Markets and knightly tournaments took place here. On the north side overlooks the S.Agostino museum dedicated to Ligurian art between...
On the eastern side there is a well covered by a colonnaded kiosk, surmounted by a bust of two-faced Janus, which draws water from an enormous cistern fed by the civic aqueduct. On the south side there is the deconsecrated church of San Salvatore in Sarzano, now the great hall of the Faculty of Architecture....
2 min
The square of San Luca presents, on the east side the noble church of the Spinola family built around 1100, on the south side we find the Palazzo di Gio Battista Grimaldi, which is one of the Rolli palaces, a UNESCO world heritage site. The church is still today a private church belonging to the Grimaldi family. Despite its small size, it houses very important...
13 min
Via Garibaldi, formerly "Strada nuova", is the first example of subdivision at a European level, with a stylistic and conceptual uniqueness that made it so famous that it was studied by Pieter Paul Rubens, contributing to the spread of the Renaissance style in Europe! Via Garibaldi was designed by Bernardino....
14 min
It is one of the main squares in the historic center of Genoa, and was the center of the Doria consortium, one of the most illustrious Genoese families.
Located very close to Piazza De Ferrari, it has a church on the south-east side rebuilt in 1278 in Gothic style and with a white and gray...
Located very close to Piazza De Ferrari, it has a church on the south-east side rebuilt in 1278 in Gothic style and with a white and gray striped vestment (white marble and Promontorio stone). Subsequently the cloister was built, to the left of the church and behind Palazzo di Branca Doria. Inside the church we find works by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli, Bergamasco and Luca Cambiaso.
The palaces of the Doria family were erected around the square. In them we find works of great value, for example in the Palazzo di Branca Doria we find works by Bernardo Strozzi.
10 min