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including those of 2001, have
given the Piazza De Ferrari a
major face-lift.

5 Accademia
Ligustica di
Belle Arti
Largo Pertini 4. Map 6 D3. Tel 010
581 957. Open 2:30–6:30pm Tue–Fri.
8 by appt. & ^ without
permission. ∑ accademialigustica.it
The ultra-modern stage at the Teatro Carlo Felice
Founded in 1751 by a group
of aristocrats and scholars as a the modern part of the Teatro 8 Museo Civico
School of Fine Arts (belle arti), the Carlo Felice, designed by di Storia Naturale
Accademia occupies a palazzo Ignazio Gardella, Aldo Rossi Giacomo Doria
built for it between 1826–31 by and Fabio Reinhart in 1991.
Carlo Barabino. The museum on The theatre is dominated by a Via Brigata Liguria 9. Map 6 F5.
the first floor is home to paintings huge square tower pierced by Tel 010 564 567. Open 10am–6pm
and drawings donated to the small windows. Four sections Tue–Sun. & 7 8 by appt.
academy. Works of art from the of stage area are manoeuvred ∑ museidigenova.it
15th to 19th centuries are by a complex, state-of-the-art
arranged chronologically: they computerized system, making Established in 1867 by Marchese
include works by major Ligurian the theatre one of the most Giacomo Doria, its director for
artists (Gregorio De Ferrari and innovative in Europe. more than 40 years, Genoa’s
Bernardo Strozzi, among others), Natural History Museum contains
and artists who were active in important zoological finds, many
Genoa (such as Perin del Vaga 7 Santo Stefano collected in the 19th century.
and Anton Raphael Mengs). On the ground floor there are
Piazza Santo Stefano 2. Map 6 E4.
Tel 010 587 183. Open 3:30–6:30pm rooms devoted to mammals and
Tue–Sun (Sun am only in Aug). reconstructed animal habitats.
A definite must-see is the
Built at the end of the 12th Palaeontology Room, with its
century, the Romanesque skeleton of Elephus antiquus
church of Santo Stefano stands italicus, an ancient elephant
on the site of a Benedictine found near Rome in 1941. On
abbey. The church underwent the first floor there are displays
major restoration after being of reptiles, amphibians, birds,
damaged in World War II. butterflies and insects.
The façade features bands of The museum undertakes
black-and-white striped marble, plenty of educational work
typical of Pisan and Ligurian and has a full calendar of
Romanesque, with a main door conferences and exhibitions.
surmounted by an oculus and
Polyptych of St Erasmus by Perin a mullioned window. The brick-
del Vaga built apse is particularly lovely,
ornamented by blind arches
6 Teatro Carlo with arcading above. The bell
tower and the 14th-century
Felice lantern are also constructed
Passo Eugenio Montale 4. in decorative brick.
Map 6 D3. Tel 010 538 11, ticket office Inside, in the
010 589 329 or 010 591 697. Open for presbytery, is Martyrdom
performances. 8 Mon, by appt. & of St Stephen, a fine work
7 ∑ carlofelicegenova.it by Giulio Romano (1524),
and paintings by various
The Neo-Classical theatre Genoese and Lombard
designed in the 1820s by Carlo artists, among them
Barabino was virtually gutted Valerio Castello,
by bombing in 1944, and only Gregorio De Ferrari
parts of the original façade and Giulio Cesare Santo Stefano, with its classic combination of black
survived. These give way to Procaccini. and white marble

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