Historic Cities
Walk Genoa in 1650
AI rebuilds Genoa (Genova) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Genoa the Superb, 1650
This is Genoa at the height of its mercantile splendour: bankers and noble palaces shoulder one another while new defensive walls stride the surrounding ridges. The walk moves from the crowded quays where silver and spices are landed, past Strada Nuova's frescoed fronts and hanging gardens, into the tight caruggi and up to the new bastions above the harbour.
35 scenes — 23 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Genoa as it stood in 1650 (“History of Genoa”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Gulf of Genoa
- 2. La Lanterna
- ↳ Lantern Keeper's Chamber · interior
- 3. Molo Vecchio
- ↳ Customs Warehouse · interior
- 4. Mandraccio Quay
- ↳ Shipchandler's Store · interior
- 5. Palazzo San Giorgio
- ↳ Bank of Saint George Hall · interior
- 6. Piazza Banchi
- ↳ Counting House · interior
- 7. Loggia dei Mercanti
- ↳ Merchants' Hall · interior
- 8. Porta dei Vacca
- 9. Via dei Banchi
- 10. Cattedrale di San Lorenzo
- ↳ Baptist Chapel · interior
- 11. Palazzo Ducale
- ↳ Doge's Banquet Kitchen · interior
- 12. Fontane Marose
- 13. Via Pré
- 14. Porta Soprana
- 15. Casa di Colombo
- 16. Strada Nuova
- ↳ Frescoed Gallery · interior
- ↳ Marble Atrium Stair · interior
- 17. Palazzo Doria
- 18. Palazzo Spinola
- ↳ Piano Nobile Salone · interior
- 19. Palazzo Bianco
- ↳ Portrait Gallery · interior
- 20. Piazza San Matteo
- 21. San Matteo
- 22. Nuove Mura at Righi
- 23. Spianata di Castelletto