Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Genoa, Italy

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 6 sights
Distance 1.7 km
Ascend 39 m
Descend 115 m

Explore Genoa in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Genoa

Sight 1: Villa Centurione Doria

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Villa Doria Centurione is a historic noble residence in the municipality of Genoa. It is located in Pegli, a residential district in the western part of the city. The building, a typical example of pre-Alessian Mannerist architecture, now owned by the municipality of Genoa, is home to the naval museum of Pegli.

Wikipedia: Villa Doria Centurione (IT)

511 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Giardino botanico Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi

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Giardino botanico Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi Daderot. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Giardino botanico Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi is a small botanical garden located on the grounds of the Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini in Pegli, a suburb of Genoa, Italy. It is a part of the romantic historical park made by Ignazio Pallavicini in 1846.

Wikipedia: Giardino botanico Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi (EN)

15 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 3: Museo Civico di Archeologia Ligure

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The Museum of Ligurian Archaeology is a museum in Genoa, Italy, located in the Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini, in the Pegli district.

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8 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 4: Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini

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The Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini is a villa with notable 19th-century park in the English romantic style and a small botanical garden. The villa now houses the Museo di Archeologia Ligure, and is located at Via Pallavicini 13, immediately next to the railway station in Pegli, a suburb of Genoa, Italy. The park and botanical garden are open daily except mondays.

Wikipedia: Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini (EN)

242 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Museo Navale

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The Naval Museum of Pegli is an Italian museum located in Genoa, in the Pegli district, housed inside the sixteenth-century Villa Doria Centurione.

Wikipedia: Museo navale di Pegli (IT)

921 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 6: Cappella di San Filippo Neri

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Villa Lomellini Rostan is a noble villa located in the Multedo district, today in the western suburbs of Genoa. Due to its magnificence and the beauty of its gardens, before the industrial development of the second half of the twentieth century devastated the surrounding area, it was an important cultural and landscape reference point for this area of western Genoa. It is located a short distance from the mouth of the Varenna river, which marks the border between the districts of Pegli and Multedo.

Wikipedia: Villa Lomellini Rostan (IT)

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