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Simone Vignoso slipway dry dock

The elevated road crossing Via Antonio Gramsci, designed by engineer Fabrizio de Miranda

Fishing boats moored at the Simone Vignoso quay, with the Galata Maritime Museum in the background

The tables at Caffè Barroero, under the arcades of Sottoripa

An ancient noble palace in Piazza Bianchi

The Church of San Pietro in Banchi, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, dating from the 16th century.

The chancel of the church of San Pietro in Banchi, flanked by two statues of saints

The stucco work in the apse of the church of San Pietro in Banchi, created in 1586 by Marcello Sparzo

Via della Maddalena, situated in the neighbourhood of the same name, is a long medieval street flanked by narrow lanes and alleyways

The sundial at Palazzo Gerolamo Grimaldi, created by Giacomo Brusco in the 18th century.

Via Garibaldi, a long street in the historic centre, built in 1550 by Bernardino Cantone

The Palazzo Rosso, or Palazzo Rodolfo e Francesco Maria Brignole, situated on Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, was designed by the architect Pietro Antonio Corradi in 1671

The town’s coat of arms adorning the marble portal of Palazzo Doria - Tursi (Town Hall) in Via Garibaldi, built in 1565

The Palazzo Doria - Tursi, also known as Palazzo Niccolò Grimaldi, on Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, was designed by the architect brothers Domenico and Giovanni Ponzello in the 16th century.

Some of the frescoes decorating the façade of the Palazzo di Angelo Giovanni and Giulio Spinola in Via Giuseppe Garibaldi

Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, with Palazzo Pantaleo Spinola (or Palazzo Gambaro) on the left and Palazzo Carrega Cataldi on the right

Piazza Fontane Marose, with Palazzo Spinola di Luccoli - Balestrino on the left and Palazzo Negrone on the right

Palazzo Spinola di Luccoli - Balestrino in Piazza Fontane Marose, currently the headquarters of Intesa Sanpaolo, designed by the architect Nicolò Lavernada

On the left is the western façade of the Teatro Carlo Felice, overlooking Via Roma

On the left is the rectangular pedestal, made of Baveno granite, of the monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi in Piazza De Ferrari

The Palazzo del Credito Italiano (right) and the Palazzo della Nuova Borsa (left) in Piazza De Ferrari; the latter was built in the early 1900s to a design by Dario Carbone

The dome of the Palazzo del Credito Italiano, designed by Giuseppe Tallero in 1914, and, to the right, a tall wrought-iron lamppost in Piazza De Ferrari

In the foreground is the bronze lamp post in Piazza De Ferrari, followed by the Palazzo della Regione Liguria and the monumental fountain

The grand fountain in Piazza De Ferrari, designed by the architect Giuseppe Crosa di Vergagni and unveiled on 24 April 1936

On the left is the Palazzo della Società Italia di Navigazione in Piazza De Ferrari, now the headquarters of the Liguria Regional Government, designed by Cesare Gamba in the early 1900s

The equestrian statue dedicated to Giuseppe Garibaldi in Piazza De Ferrari, with the Teatro Carlo Felice in the background, featuring a neoclassical pronaos with Doric columns

The equestrian statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi in Piazza De Ferrari, created by the sculptor Augusto Rivalta in 1893

Statue depicting the spirit of Harmony, towering above the pronaos of the Carlo Felice Theatre, by Giuseppe Gaggini

The bronze equestrian statue dedicated to the Italian patriot, general and military leader Giuseppe Garibaldi, created in 1893 by Augusto Rivalta

The bell tower and dome of the Cathedral of San Lorenzo (Duomo) in Via di San Lorenzo

The façade of St Lawrence’s Cathedral, with one of the two column-bearing lions at its base, created by the sculptor Carlo Rubatto in 1840

The splayed Gothic portal with black and white bands (13th century) of the Metropolitan Cathedral of St Lawrence, with a lunette depicting Christ with St Lawrence

The inner arch of the main portal of San Lorenzo Cathedral, frescoed by an unknown Byzantine painter in the 14th century

The central nave of San Lorenzo Cathedral, entirely clad in marble, is divided by Gothic columns surmounted by faux women’s galleries dating from the 1300s

The marble high altar of the Cathedral of San Lorenzo (Duomo), by Gio Battista Bianco, surmounted by a bronze statue of the Madonna

The Chapel of St John the Baptist in St Lawrence’s Cathedral, where his relics are enshrined in an urn

High-reliefs decorating the altar of the Chapel of St John the Baptist, depicting a scene from his life, in St Lawrence’s Cathedral

The decorated pillar and the dome of the Chapel of St John the Baptist in St Lawrence’s Cathedral

The statues adorning the Chapel of St John the Baptist in St Lawrence’s Cathedral, the work of the sculptors Sansovino and Matteo Civitali

The small dome of the Chapel of St John the Baptist, situated in the left aisle of St Lawrence’s Cathedral

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