Castello Mackenzie
Castello Mackenzie, or Castello Mackenzie in Italian, is remembered here as a marker of Genoa’s late-19th and early-20th century cultural exchange. The site began as a country villa on the remains of Genoa’s 16th‑century walls, and its Gothic Revival form was designed by the Art Nouveau architect Gino Coppedè for Evan Mackenzie, with construction dated to the 1890s and completed by 1905. In 1956 it was declared a national monument, signaling its place in Italy’s architectural and social memory. Thirty years later, American collector Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. acquired the property, though restoration work remained unfinished before the castle changed hands again in 2002 to the Cambi auction house, which commissioned Gianfranco Franchini to complete the restoration. …
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