The palazzo Doria-Tursi or palazzo Niccolò Grimaldi is a building on Via Giuseppe Garibaldi in the historic town centre of

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. With

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and

Palazzo Bianco Palazzo Bianco ( en, White Palace) is one of the main buildings of the center of Genoa, Italy. It is situated at 11, via Garibaldi (known at one time as ''Strada Nuova'', and before that, ''Via Aurea''). It contains the Gallery of the White Pala ...

it houses the 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

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. 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

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and Giovanni Ponzello, pupils of

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, for Niccolò Grimaldi, known as "il Monarca" for his huge number of noble titles and for being main banker to

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. It had two large gardens to frame the central building. The large loggias facing the street were added in 1597, when the palazzo was acquired by

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for his younger son Carlo, Duke of Tursi, giving the building its present name. Following the

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's annexation of the

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, the building was acquired by

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in 1820, at which point it was rebuilt by the Savoy court architect

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, adding the clock-tower.''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 From 1848 it

Architecture

Exterior

Interior

Gallery

File:Facciata Palazzo Doria Tursi 02.JPG, Facade in pink Finale stone, grey-black Valfontabuona slate and white Carrara marble File:Palazzo Doria-Tursi - Musei di Strada Nuova Notturno.JPG, Stairway File:Tursi e le colonne.jpg, Rectangular two-floor courtyard File:Palazzo Doria-Tursi - Musei di Strada Nuova (2).jpg, Interiors File:Palazzo Tursi Sala di rappresentanza 01.JPG, Ceiling of the Salone di Rappresentanza File:Pierre Paul Rubens - Palazzi di Genova, vol. I - Figura 67.jpg, Rubens - ''Palaces of Genoa'', 1622

Museum rooms

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References

Bibliography

* Massimo Listri, ''I musei di strada nuova a Genova'', Allemandi, 2005, .

External links

* {{coord missing, Italy category:Art museums and galleries in Genoa category:Buildings and structures in Genoa Buildings and structures completed in 1565 Buildings and structures completed in 1597 category:Mannerist architecture in Italy Palazzi dei Rolli