COLUMBUS MONUMENTS PAGES
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Genova (Italia)
Columbus house |
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Plaque |
Introduction to Genova
Description:
Inscriptions:
Plaque on the house:
NVLLA DOMVS TITVLO DIGNIOR
HEIC
PATERNIS IN AEDIBVS
CHRISTOPHORVS COLVMBVS
PVERITIAM
PRIMAMQVI IVVENTAM TRANSEGIT
Next to the house is a small park with the St. Andreas Cloister. A metal plaque at the entrance of this park reads:
MINISTERIO PER I BENI CULTURALI E AMBIENTALI
SOPRINTENDENZA PER BENI AMBIENTALI E ARCHITETTONICI
DELLA LIGURIA - GENOVA
1492-1992
LAVORI DI RESTAURO CONSERVATICO DELLA
CASE DI CRISTOFORO COLOMBO, DEL CHIOSTRO
DI S. ANDREA E SISTEMAZIONE DELL' AREA
CIRCOSTANTE ESEGUITI NEL 1987/1988
(Finanziamento ex lege no. 418 del 8 ago 85).
Notes
The Columbus House
Just outside the Porta Soprana, on the Vico Dritto di Ponticello, is the Casa de Colombo, the Columbus House. On old photographs, this house is in a narrow street with houses on both sides. Nowadays, all the other houses are demolished and the Columbus house is left as a lonely remnant of the past. In 1987/88 the area is restored for the 1992 celebrations.
Source(s):
Plaque: Photocard of the 1930s, author's collection; Other photos: Peter van der Krogt, 9 August 2001
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