New Street Museums Guided Tour
Take part in this New Street Museums Guided Tour, a complex of 3 museums divided into 3 wonderful hoped-for palaces, all located in the main street of the city (Via Garibaldi).
Along Via Garibaldi, walking along the Renaissance and wonderful new street, declared in 2006 World Heritage Site by UNESCO, you will find a complex of museums of a reality at the same time ancient and modern, connecting 3 important Genoese palaces: Palazzo Bianco, Palazzo Rosso and Palazzo Tursi. The new street museums tell in brief what is the history of the city since the fifteenth century.
During your New Street Museums Guided Tour, you will discover how the first Palazzo Bianco, houses the most important art gallery in the region, with Genoese, Italian, Spanish and Flemish works dating from the 16th to the 18th century. Next we find Palazzo Rosso, where inside it tells how people lived at that time inside one of these wonderful palaces, and where inside it exhibits Italian works of the 15th-17th centuries, as well as valuable portraits by Van Dyck. Finally Palazzo Tursi preserves the collection of coins, weights and official measures of the Republic of Genoa, works of the 18th century and decorative art, but above all the famous violin by Paganini: the cannon.
Come and discover these splendid palaces together with your local guide and immerse yourself in the past among the most important Genoese families, discovering Palazzo Rosso, Palazzo Bianco and Palazzo Tursi and how they are the residences owned by the municipality in the 16th century and located in the magnificent Strada Nuova.
The Strada Nuova (Via Garibaldi) has thus been transformed into a real “street-museum” thanks to the union of these three palaces in a single and continuous itinerary. On this guided tour and with one of our expert local guides, get ready to see one of the masterpieces of Genoese architectural and living culture.
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