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
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
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Facade in pink Finale stone, grey-black Valfontabuona slate and white Carrara marble
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Stairway
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Rectangular two-floor courtyard
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Interiors
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Ceiling of the Salone di Rappresentanza
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Rubens - Palaces of Genoa, 1622
Museum rooms
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Scales
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Weights
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Liquid unit of measure
References
- ^ 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, ISBN 9788842213475.
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