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Moderna featuring modern
Italian painting. The Villa Luxoro
on Via Aurelia is notable for its
collection of clocks, fabrics,
furniture and lace. The area is also
famous as Garibaldi’s departure
point when he set off for Sicily
with his Mille (the famous
“Thousand” men) to help bring
about the unification of Italy. A
large monument at Quarto dei
Mille, about 3 km (2 miles) back
towards the city, marks the place
where the volunteers met in May
1860 to follow the intrepid
revolutionary (see p66–7). Villa
The romantic gardens at Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini in Pegli Grimaldi houses the Frugone
brothers’ art and sculpture
Luca Cambiaso, Bernardo Strozzi Environs collection, showing late 18th-
and Domenico Piola. Better- Until World War II, Pegli, 6 km and early 19th-century works
known artists include Filippino (4 miles) west of the city centre, by Fattori, Boldi and Messina.
Lippi, Van Dyck, Veronese and was a popular weekend retreat
Rubens. At No. 9 Via Garibaldi, for rich Genoese. Now it forms E Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini
Palazzo Tursi hosts the Lord part of the city, but maintains Via Pallavicini 11, Pegli. Tel 010 698 10
Mayor’s boardrooms, as well as an air of tranquillity thanks to 48. Open 9am–7pm Tue–Fri (from
an extension of the Palazzo its parks and two villas, the 10am Sat–Sun). Closed pub hols.
Bianco Gallery. Across the street 19th-century Villa Durazzo- & 7
in the Palazzo Rosso are more Palla vicini and the 16th-century E Villa Doria, Museo Navale
paintings, including works by Villa Doria, Museo Navale. Piazza Bonavino 7, Pegli. Tel 010 696
Dürer and Caravaggio, as well The latter is a naval history 98 85. Open 9am–1:30pm Tue–Sun
as ceramics and furniture. museum cele brating Genoa’s (6pm Sat, 1pm Sun). Closed public
glorious past: you can see hols. & 7
compasses, astro labes, globes, E Galleria d’Arte Moderna
model ships and a portrait of Villa Serra, Via Capolungo 3, Nervi.
Columbus, ascribed to Tel 010 372 60 25. Open Tue–Sun. &
Ghirlandaio, probably dating
from 1525. An archaeological E Villa Luxoro
museum in the Villa Durazzo- Via Mafalda di Savoia 3, Nervi. Tel 010
32 26 73. Open Tue–Sat. Closed
Pallavicini relates the pre-Roman public hols. &
history of the Ligurian coast.
The villa’s garden is landscaped E Villa Grimaldi
with romantic grottoes, Via Capolungo 9, Nervi. Tel 010 32 23
pavilions and fountains. 96. Open Tue–Sun.
Nervi, 8 km (5 miles)
Fine tomb architecture from the huge to the east of the city, is
Staglieno Cemetery another former resort
town, fam ous for its
Z Staglieno Cemetery seafront promenade,
Piazzale Resasco, Staglieno. Tel 010 87 the Passeggiata Anita
01 84. Open 7:30am–5pm daily. Garibaldi (named after
Closed pub hols. 7 Garibaldi’s wife). The walk
This grandiose cemetery, just follows a route that has
over the hills northeast of Genoa been cut into the rock
along the Bisagno River, is so big face, giving panoramic
(33 ha, 81.5 acres) that it has views of the coast. The
its own internal bus system. lush Parco Muni cipale
Founded in 1844, its tombs and is another feature of
monuments make up an eerie Nervi. It once formed
city of miniature cathedrals, the grounds of two
Egyptian temples and Art aristocratic villas – Villa
Nouveau palaces. Its most Serra and Villa Gropallo.
famous resident is Giuseppe The former, on Via
Mazzini, the Genoese revolu tion- Capolungo, now houses Pini (c.1920) by Rubaldo Merello in the Galleria d’Arte
ary who died near Pisa in 1872. the Galleria d’Arte Moderna at Nervi

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