Sunday evening in Via Garibaldi

The grand residence palaces on the Strada Nuova (now Via Garibaldi) in Genoa were erected in the late 16th century and formed the quarter of the nobility of the town. Palaces are generally three or four stories high and feature spectacular open staircases, courtyards, and loggias overlooking gardens, positioned at different levels in a relatively tight space. The palazzi offer an extraordinary variety of different solutions, achieving universal value in adapting to the particular characteristics of the site and to the requirements of a specific social and economic organization. They also offer an original example of a network of public hospitality houses for visits of state, as decreed by the Senate in 1576. The owners of these palazzi were obliged to host state visits, thus contributing to the dissemination of knowledge of an architectural model and a residential culture which attracted famous artists and travellers, and of which a significant example is a collection of drawings by Pieter Paul Rubens.
Via Garibaldi takes part of the UNESCO’s World Heritage List as "Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli".