Genoa
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Via Garibaldi
One
of Genoa's more spectacular trompe l'oeuil paintings, on a building
on Via Garibaldi.
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Museums/galleries:
Two of the Genoa's best art galleries, Galleria di Palazzo Bianco and Galleria di Palazzo Rosso are in the the city's most historic street, Via Garibaldi [originally Strada Nuova] while the
city's best museum is the Palazzo Reale on Via Balbi, the glittering
best place to see how Italian royals lived 500 years ago.
The
courtyard of the Palazzo Podesta off Via Garibaldi.
A
strange and wonderful medallion - part of a set - on
Via Garibaldi.
The Aquarium on the waterfront is fiendishly ugly externally
but diverse, colourful, informative and worthwhile inside and
particularly popular with kids. It's Europe's biggest aquarium
and houses excellent reconstructions of a Caribbean reef, a
rain forest habitat and many more educational sets, as well
as a terrific collection of marine critters, including piranha,
penguins, Mediterranean jellyfish, massive sunfish, touchable
rays and acrobatic dolphins. Suggestion to Genoa's local government:
paint the bloody hideous exterior with a trompe l'oeuil design!
The
Palazzo di San Giorgio in Piazza Caricamento, Genoa's port area [Porto Antico],
partly obscured by the Moro elevated road.
A less subtle new trompe l'oeuil on the Palazzo-cum-fortress-cum-prison
where a certain Pisan prisoner called Rustichello met a certain
Venetian prisoner called Marco Polo and heard tall tales of
wild world travels which Rustichello later published to great
and lasting effect.
The Palazzo now houses Genoa Harbour Authorities and is the
centre of the lively but unharmonic waterfront redevelopment.
The sea is behind the camera while the old town is on the other side of the
Palazzo.
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