a journey through the Rubensian places of Genoa and much more. Here are the news
The Rolli Days are back in Genoa: from 14 to 16 October the autumn 2022 edition of the event that opens the doors of the Palazzi dei Rolli to the public, free of charge. Here are the news.
From 14 to 16 October they come back to Genoa I Roll daysopportunity not to be missed to see and access for free to the Palaces of the Rollirecognized since 2006 UNESCO World Heritage Site. A series of buildings, among the most sumptuous in the city, belonged to the families most destined to house ambassadors, cardinals, legates, princes, sovereigns who came to visit the city. The first listdenominator roll (hence the term Palazzi dei Rolli), was drawn up in 1576 and included fifty-two casethat all rolls increased in number with the following rolls (in five were drawn up, the last of which in 1664.
For over ten years the wait, enhances and tells the UNESCO site The Strade Nuove and the System of the Palazzi dei Rolli and now, after the spring edition, here is theautumn edition 2022. Most of the sites selected for opening will be those contained within the 1652 edition of the Rubensian volume Palaces of Genoa (printed for the first time in 1622) where there are thirty-five places between palaces, suburban villas and city churches: exceptionally, they will be open in the October edition twenty places described from drawings commissioned by Rubens. On a journey that explores the palaces of late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the monumental buildings of Via Balbi will be open to the public, from the Galleria di Palazzo Reale to the buildings of the University; the streets of the historic center with the sensational works of art preserved in the National Gallery of Liguria in Palazzo Spinola; the extraordinary suburban villas of Albaro and Sampierdarena accompany the superb Villa Pallavicino delle Peschiere. I Roll days they will in fact be in synergy with the great exhibition Rubens in Genoaset up in Ducal Palaceproduced by the Municipality of Genoa with the Palazzo Ducale for Culture Foundation and curated by Nils Büttner and Anna Orlando, to celebrate the fourth centenary of the publication in Antwerp in 1622 of the famous volume of Pieter Paul Rubens. Here the artist told the world about the exceptional nature of the Genoese palaces, through a series of detailed illustrations of the facades, the plants, the structure of the most important residences.
It will not be just the Rubensian places of Genoa to be the protagonists of the autumn edition of Rolli Day: Palazzo Rosso has been announced and refurbished and the public will have the opportunity to visit the eighteenth-century Anton Giulio II Brignole’s apartment Saleopen to visitors for the first time in weeks.
New in this edition will also be the opportunity to visit the Conservatory of the Fieschi. Founded in 1763 as a testamentary bequest of Domenico Fieschi, the structure was for years a pious secular work, able to welcome and care for girls born in Genoa and left orphans or from particularly poor families; even today the Foundation continues its mutualistic purpose by subsidizing young students in difficulty or more deserving through scholarships. During the visit you will have the opportunity to admire the particular church, the picture gallery of the Foundation, the wonderful examples of wooden nativity figurines of the Genoese school, the important archives of the Fieschi family and the Conservatory itself.
As always, the visits to most of the buildings and open sites will be conducted by young science communicatorsprofessionals in the humanities sector ready to engage visitors with their enthusiasm and expertise.
In addition to the traditional guided tours, the event will be accompanied by collateral events.
Rolli Days is an event organized and organized by the Municipality of Genoa in collaboration with the Genoa Chamber of Commerce, the Ministry of Culture – the Regional Secretariat of Liguria, the Rolli Association of the Genoese Republic; University of Genoa.
For all the info and to discover the program: https://www.visitgenoa.it/rollidays-online/
Photo of the Municipality of Genoa
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