Villa Durazzo
Villa Durazzo-Centurione rises from Santa Margherita Ligure as a composite of two noble houses set within an Italianate garden and the art museum Vittorio Giovanni Rossi. The site belongs to the municipality and today hosts exhibitions and cultural events, with the nearby baroque parish church of San Giacomo di Corte providing a delicate architectural counterpoint just steps away. The villa sits atop the hill that once separated Pescino from Corte, and its fortified beginnings reflect a 16th-century program to defend the Republic of Genoa from Barbary incursions. Originally linked to the doge Giovanni Luca Chiavari, the complex grew through the Durazzo lineage after a marriage that transferred the estate “per Legato,” and Gio Luca Durazzo oversaw major alterations. …
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