Museo di Palazzo Reale, Genova

Prestigious house, inside which you can admire frescoes, decoration, paintings, sculptures and furniture, which belonged to three families, Balbi, Durazzo and finally Savoy, who have lived here over the centuries.

The palace is perhaps the largest architectural complex six-eighteenth century in Genoa that has kept intact its internal representation, complete either fixed decorations (frescoes and stucco) and mobile ones (paintings, sculptures, furniture and furnishings). The vaults of the salons and galleries are painted by some of the top names of the baroque and rococo decoration. Among the more than one hundred paintings displayed in the rooms there are works of the best Genoese artists of the seventeenth century with masterpieces of Bassano, Tintoretto, Luca Giordano, Anthony van Dyck, Ferdinand Voet and Guercino.

The visit includes the monumental hall with eighteenth-century stucco work, the main courtyard, the hanging garden and noble apartment on the second floor with spectacular state rooms such as the Throne Room, the Living Dance and Hall of Mirrors. Upon reservation you can also visit the House of Hereditary Princes also said the Duke of Abruzzi had installed by the Savoy on the first floor of the building Nobile This wonderful example of real apartment still preserves furniture, fabrics and nineteenth-century decorations.