Explorar Génova

The Doge's Palace was the seat of the doges of the Republic of Genoa from the 14th century. After a fire in 1777, Simone Cantoni rebuilt its central block with a neoclassical marble facade on Piazza Matteotti. It is now a cultural centre with art exhibitions, talks and the Grimaldina Tower with its former prison cells.

Christopher Columbus House is an 18th-century reconstruction of the house where Columbus lived as a boy, between about 1455 and 1470, on Vico Dritto di Ponticello just outside Porta Soprana. His father Domenico, a wool weaver, had his workshop on the ground floor. The City of Genoa bought the house in 1887 and runs it as a small museum.

Palazzo Rosso is a red-fronted palace on Via Garibaldi, built in 1675 for the Brignole Sale family. In 1874 the last heir, Maria Brignole Sale, Duchess of Galliera, left it and its collection to the city. Part of the Musei di Strada Nuova, it shows rooms frescoed by Gregorio De Ferrari and Domenico Piola and paintings by Van Dyck, Guercino and Veronese.

Galata Museo del Mare is a maritime museum in the Palazzo Galata on the Darsena, where the galleys of the Republic of Genoa were once built. Opened in 2004, it covers five levels and 31 rooms on seafaring from the 15th century to today, with a full-size galley, Columbus and emigration sections, and the submarine Nazario Sauro moored outside.