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| Views in Via Garibaldi |
Buildings of splendid grandeur
interspersed with narrow alleyways that plunge up and down – all built very
close together, there is little room between the mountains and the sea. Wondrous, suspended gardens are accessed from the second floors of huge houses with
stuccoed or painted facades; courtyards with majestic staircases; huge, tall
windows and, particularly on the corners of the palazzi, light pours in from
everywhere, filtered by the tallest, louvered shutters I have ever seen, often painted in pale grey or yellow umber.
French windows lead onto vast terraces from which one could see the
port, the sea and the horizon that led to Christopher Columbus’ voyage to 
Between tall, narrow tenement streets is the Museo di Palazzo Spinola, lived in by a branch of the Spinolas until the 1960’s [above].
Left - Genova was so cold in February...a fountain with icicles extending from the stalactites!
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