The Durazzo Pallavicini Park, created at the request of the Marquis Ignazio Pallavicini, was designed and realised between 1840 and 1846 by Michele Canzio, who at the time was working as a stage designer at the Carlo Felice Theatre.
His genius led not only to a park fashioned in the Romantic style, but also to a highly original theatrical itinerary made up of a number of set designs, linked to one another by a narrative thread spread over three acts. The route, which is highlighted with refined vistas combining nature and architecture, curls along the Viale Classico (Classical Avenue), the Coffee House, the Arc de Triomphe, the Hermit’s House, and finally the Big Lake with Chinese Pagoda and Temple of Diana, the Flora Garden and the Rose Gazebo, all of which forms part of a landscape that is meticulously composed within its various elements.
Highly prestigious plant forms are not lacking, either: the monumental camphor tree (cinnamonum camphora) next to the Lebanese Cedar, the palm trees, monkey puzzle tree (araucaria) and cork tree - although the collection of ancient camellias, which rewards us with its spectacular blossoming every spring, particularly stands out.
The Park includes the “Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi” botanical garden. Created in 1794, the garden was extremely famous from the outset in several parts of €pe, thanks to the skill and entrepreneurial flair of Clelia Durazzo, a woman from a noble family. It underwent a dramatic transformation in 1840, at the wish of her nephew Ignazio Pallavicini, and was later renovated again by his daughter, Teresa.
Since 1928, it has been the property of Genoa Council, which over the last few years has restored it to its old splendour.
The two nineteenth-century glasshouses represent Genoa’s most refined affirmation of the botanical culture that marked scientific environments at the start of the nineteenth century.
Despite its modest size, the new botanical garden offers an extensive panorama, highlighting the wonderful biodiversity of the plant world, thanks to the numerous theme-based “rooms” through which nature can be tangibly approached, thus giving visitors the opportunity to understand the various biological mechanisms, ecological systems, intriguing morphologies and hidden secrets of plants.
Text: Grandi Giardini Italiani
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San Camillo, Genoa
On 1st May 1667, where the ancient Oratorio della Croce was, with the agreement of the abbot of S.Stefano and with the contribution of Gio Maria De Franchi, Francesco and Camillo Bo, the start was given to S. Croce e San Camillo church. Works were finished in 1671: on 3rd May of that year, feast day of Santa Croce, the church was in fact solemnly opened. In 1682, the ornamentation of the facade was completed.
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The Priests of San Camillo (or Crociferi), officiating for the church, were active in serving the sick at Pammatone hospital until 9th December 1777, when the Capuchins took over their role in the assistance to the sick, and left Annunziata church in Portoria, which they had held up until then, to the Operai Evangelici Franzoniani.
The Crociferi endured the Napoleonic suppression of 1810; they were only able to set up again after 1815. In 1839, they were assigned Santa Maria di Granarolo church, which they kept for just seven years.
Due to another government suppression in 1866, the City Council (who still today owns the church) was given ownership of the house and San Camillo church; part of the house was to be demolished in the expansion of via Balilla. A few rooms behind the church were granted to the small number of priests remaining.
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The Port of Genoa - from the Top of the Shipboard Crane
A new point of view, the commercial port of Genoa in a 360° panorama photography in Quicktime, taken from the top of the crane of the Containership “Cielo del Canada” inside the Terminal SECH.
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Virtual Tour with interactive Map
On the presentation of the harbour Marina Porto Antico in Genoa the angle of view can be seen on the map. This solution can also be used for virtual Tours in museums, ships and hotel ressorts.
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