Genoa Buildings

I was going to do a post on Genoa buildings and interiors--the museums and palazzos and churches we toured--but that would have taken 100 or more pix. Personally, princely/ducal/royal interiors look pretty much all the same to me: lots of gold, velvet, colors of red, blue, green, curvy furniture, marble floors, ceilings of gods/apotheoses/battles, putti, etc. So here, lest we go to three or four blog posts on Genoa buildings and interiors, I am going to stick to the exteriors pretty much. For the record, we followed a Michelin walking tour as well as we could, seeing the Palazzo Reale, the Palazzo Principe, the Porto Antico, the Galleria di Palazzo Spinola, and the palazzos of the Strada Nuova. Plus Cristoforo Colombo's (alleged) house. Plus some other things.

I could have done an entire post on door ways

Church, important because

Paganini did his first concert here (see art post)

Typical of the beautiful buildings

Old building

Harbor

Locked entrance to an intriguing 12th centuury
Romanesque

24/7 plenary indulgences; in perpetuity

We couldn't find the way in...

Centro

Old walls, gate

Cloister moved here to make way for some new (18th century) construction

Columbus' house; even the TI referred to it as "the so-called
Columbus house"

Bourse of yesteryear

The minute you pass Menton, trompe-l'oeil becomes standard

City hall courtyard

Palazzo Rossi

In the royal palace, I think

Church of the Annunciation

Baroque, but gorgeous

Almost reminiscent of St. Paul's Without the Walls

Hall of Mirrors in the royal palace; OK, not Versailles

Royal throne

Water feature outside the royal palace