Palazzo Reale

Palace Genoa, Italy

The Royal Palace or Palazzo Stefano Balbi is one of the major historic buildings of Genoa included on 13 July 2006 in the list among the 42 palaces registered in the Rolli of Genoa, which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site on that date. It is a museum pole consisting of the historic residence, the adjoining garden and the art gallery, the gallery of the Royal Palace which constitutes one of the main city picture galleries. Located in via Balbi 10, a short distance from the university headquarters and the Genoa Piazza Principe railway station, it is part of an important seventeenth-eighteenth-century architectural complex in the Genoese Baroque style, of which the representative interiors are preserved intact, from the frescoes to the stuccos , from paintings to furnishings. In 2015, the Royal Palace of Genoa recorded 66,625 visitors.