HOTEL ACQUAVERDE - Via Balbi, 29 - 16126 - Genova - Italy - tel. 010 265427 - fax 010 2464839
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E-mail Hotel Acquaverde in Via Balbi occupies four floors of a late eighteenth-century palace, later inhabited Genovese families of the rich merchant class. Currently the building, in addition to our structure accommodates several offices. Remaining vestiges of its past splendor frescoes, interesting examples of Baroque wall painting on the ceiling of some of the rooms. The hotel's clientele, its central position of the structure, backgrounds: university students and businessmen, workers away as well as Italian and foreign tourists, they spend in relax their stay with us, aided by courtesy of our staff to know Genoa, its history and its points of tourist and cultural interest. The young and enterprising proprietors have been operating for 20 years activities, always trying to improve and consolidate the latter, due to their continuous and fruitful efforts, aimed at improve and develop the interesting features structure in order to try to ensure, for each type of Customer, the satisfaction in his persistence at the hotel. The Via Balbi, originally the "Road of the Great Spoiled" made between 1606 and 1620 on public initiative and resumed the model became established with the noble road New Road, then via Garibaldi: the path connects the square with Piazza della Nunziata Acquaverde whose name derives from the waters of the stream that ran through St. Hugh the place where at this point, formed a small pond green for herbs outcropping at the surface. La Piazza suffered several systems up to the present with the statue of Christopher Columbus (as desired by Carlo Alberto and proposed by the Marquis Marcello Durazzo), whose execution was Bartolini but then entrusted to the completion of two Carrara, and Franzone Svanascini. The bas-reliefs at the base of the statue are the work of Gaggini, A. Costoli, GB.Cevasco and S. Revelli. It was inaugurated in 1862. Currently based in the Faculty of Humanities via Balbi University located in old palaces Modern, the Royal Palace Museum with the premises of the Superintendent local churches of SS. Victor and St. Charles, several beautiful palaces private system of "Roll", among which the residence Durazzo Pallavicini family and, in Piazza Nunziata, the building Belimbau.