Palazzo del Principe

THE HISTORY
(by Laura Stagno)

Palazzo del Principe was built and decorated to the orders of Andrea Doria (1466-1560) on land bought by him between 1521 and 1529. In March 1533, when the emperor Charles V was guest for twelve days, Andrea’s residence would have been already finished.

The position chosen, facing the sea and just outside the city
walls of Genoa, was excellent from the military point of view, offering the possibility for the Doria galleys to moor to the south and a steep hill to defend it to the back. The initial nucleus of the residence was decorated by Perin del Vaga, pupil of Raphael, with an important cycle of frescoes on mythological themes. Andrea’s successor, Giovanni Andrea I (1540-1606), enlarged the palace on both sides, doubling its size.

	TOUR
	The Palace
	The Garden

	History
	The Renaissance garden in the period between Andrea and Giovanni Andrea I Doria
	The Aviary
	The Giant
	The Doria Grotto
	The seventheenth-century and eighteenth-century garden
	The garden in the nineteenth-century
	The twentieth-century. The bombardments of the last war
	The restoration project. The topographical reconstruction of the late sixteenth-century layout
	The landscaping
	General lines for the planting
	Archaeological research in the sea garden (Marco Biagini)
	Aspects of the hydraulic system: from the archaeological studies to the document of the slave, Amett (Andrea Mamone)

THE DORIA FRIGATE