{"id":2329,"date":"2023-08-14T16:29:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T16:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guidadigenova.it\/en\/guidaeng-staging\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2023-09-19T14:53:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:53:15","slug":"annunziata-vastato-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidadigenova.it\/en\/visit-genoa\/annunziata-vastato-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Annunziata del Vastato church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidadigenova.it\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/annunziata-vastato-church-genoa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.guidadigenova.it\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/annunziata-vastato-church-genoa.jpg\" alt=\"Annunziata Vastato church, Genoa\" class=\"wp-image-2330\" style=\"width:550px\" width=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guidadigenova.it\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/annunziata-vastato-church-genoa.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.guidadigenova.it\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/annunziata-vastato-church-genoa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guidadigenova.it\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/annunziata-vastato-church-genoa-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Annunziata del Vastato church<\/strong> is certainly one of the churches to visit in Genoa, is located in <strong>Piazza della Nunziata<\/strong> in the Old Town of Genoa, surrounded by the <a aria-label=\"Palazzi dei Rolli (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guidadigenova.it\/en\/palazzi-dei-rolli-genoa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">Palazzi dei Rolli<\/a>, a few steps from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidadigenova.it\/en\/visit-genoa\/balbi-palazzo-reale\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Via Balbi<\/a> and Principe station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Characterized by the neoclassical facade with the pronaos with six columns in Ionic style built in the nineteenth century by the famous Genoese architect Carlo Barabino, the church is actually much older. Its first construction dates back to the <strong>sixteenth century<\/strong>, but was finished only in the middle of the following century thanks to the financing of the Lomellini family. Inside there are the <strong>decorations in pure gold of the dome and the central nave, the valuable works in marble, the paintings of the Genoese Baroque <\/strong>by Giovanni and Giovanni Battista Carlone and the frescoes in the dome by Andrea Ansaldo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Annunziata del Vastato church was badly damaged during the bombings of the Second World War and completely restored only in the eighties of the last century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name &#8220;Vastato&#8221;, today we would say probably &#8220;open space&#8221;, is due to the characteristics of the area where the church was erected (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidadigenova.it\/en\/genoa-history\/balbi-pre-district\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"go to the historical insight (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">go to the historical insight<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things to see in Genoa, S. 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