Palazzo Doria-Tursi

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The palazzo Doria-Tursi or palazzo Niccolò Grimaldi is a building on Via Giuseppe Garibaldi in the historic town centre of

Strada Nuova Museums and on 13 July 2006 all three palaces and the streets around them became the Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli World Heritage Site
. Since 1848 Palazzo Doria-Tursi has also housed the city hall of Genoa.

History

A courtyard in the Palazzo

The largest palazzo on the street and the only one built on three lots of land, it was begun in 1565 by the Mannerist architects

Giovanni Andrea Doria
for his younger son Carlo, Duke of Tursi, giving the building its present name.

Following the

Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia in 1820, at which point it was rebuilt by the Savoy court architect Carlo Randoni, adding the clock-tower.[1]
From 1848 it

Architecture

Exterior

Interior

Gallery

  • Facade in pink Finale stone, grey-black Valfontabuona slate and white Carrara marble
    Facade in pink Finale stone, grey-black Valfontabuona slate and white Carrara marble
  • Stairway
    Stairway
  • Rectangular two-floor courtyard
    Rectangular two-floor courtyard
  • Interiors
    Interiors
  • Ceiling of the Salone di Rappresentanza
    Ceiling of the Salone di Rappresentanza
  • Rubens - Palaces of Genoa, 1622
    Rubens - Palaces of Genoa, 1622

Museum rooms

  • Scales
    Scales
  • Weights
    Weights
  • Liquid unit of measure
    Liquid unit of measure

References

  1. ^ Proposal for the inscription of Genoa Le Strade Nuove and the System of the Palazzi dei Rolli in the Unesco World Heritage List, Volume I - Dossier, p. 142 and following

Bibliography

  • (in Italian) Massimo Listri, I musei di strada nuova a Genova, Allemandi, 2005, .

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