Palazzo Giacomo Spinola di Luccoli

The Palazzo Giacomo Spinola, or Palazzo Giacomo Spinola di Luccoli, is a historic building located in Piazza delle Fontane Marose in Genoa. It was included in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova on 13 July 2006, which became a UNESCO World Heritage site on that date. The palace is now home to the Banco di Sardegna.

Built for Giacomo Spinola between 1445 and 1459 on already built plots, it was present in all the rolli; between the years 1576 and 1595 it belonged to Antonio Spinola Marmari but it reached its highest position in 1614 with Giovanni Battista Spinola di Tomaso, man of letters and doge of the Republic of Genoa in 1613-1615. The palace has a façade with two-coloured bands and niches with marble statues of illustrious family members, three of which were executed by Domenico Gagini da Bissone.

In the 16th century, the block was expanded with a revenue house on Via di San Sebastiano. In the mid-19th century, bas-relief panels were imposed by the municipality to disguise the stretching of the shops downwards following general levelling of the carriageway. After an unlawful demolition in 1903, architects Alfredo D'Andrade and Marco Aurelio Crotta built the polyphora on the piano nobile.

The interior was significantly altered in the staircase in the 16th century. At the end of the 19th century, the palazzo was reduced to a rented house, multiplying old false ceilings masking the original wooden ceiling of the hall. This ceiling, on brackets bearing the Spinola family's coat of arms, is now being restored by a recovery project sponsored by the Banco di Sardegna to house offices and an agency.

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