Gennesaret

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

LAKE OF. GALILEE, SEA OF. GENOA (jen'ō-ä) (ancient Genua), a city of Italy, situated on the Gulf of , the Genoa, at the foot of the Apennines and the most capital of the province S. E. of important seaport; 801 miles mile circuit it rises like Paris. In a ninean amphitheater of churches, palaces and lined with tall houses. The streets are buildings, some of them of marble and handsome architecture, but now in many cases hotels or business places. Of the ducal palaces the most famous are the palace formerly inhabited by the doges, 1529 to the and the Doria, presented in Doria great Genoese citizen Andrea , was during his presiwhose residence it dency of the republic. The palaces -Pallavi- Brignole-Sale, Reale, Durazzo and others cini, Spinola, Balbi-Senarega, account of their possess great interest on beauty. historical fame and architectural of paint- Many of them contain galleries works by Van ings; the Brignole Sale has Dürer, Paolo Dyck, Rubens, Albrecht Among the Veronese, Guercino, etc. the cathedral of St. churches Lorenzo, a grand old pile in the Italian Ambrogio are Gothic style; the church of St. pictures by Guido (1589), containing the church of St. Reno and Ru Rubens; Stefano, containing g an altarpiece by Giulio Romano; L'Annunziata, splendid rich gilding. inside with marbles and the The marble municipal palace, built in Late Renaissance style, and the palace of mentioned. the Dogana must also be founded in 1243 Genoa has a university, , ; also nua library of 116,000 volumes . The hospital merous technical schools , capacity 2,200), the asylum for the poor ( and the the deaf and dumb institution, hospital for the insane are among the kind in Italy. finest institutions of their philan- There are numerous excellent thropic foundations, as the Fieschi, an The public asylum for female orphans. ; and library contains over 50,000 volumes Arts, there are the Academy of Fine family; founded (1751) by the Doria one of the the Carlo Felice Theater, finest in Italy; and the Verdi Institute fine monument to of Music. There is a Columbus by Lanzio (1862). Genoa is the commercial outlet of a wide extent of country, of which the olive oil chief exports are rice, wine, , , and silk goods, coral, paper, macaroni raw marble. The imports are principally coffee, cotton, wheat, sugar, coal, hides, machinraw wool, fish, petroleum, iron, . The ery, and cotton and woolen textiles , cotprincipal industries are iron works works, ton and cloth mills, macaroni and vestatanneries, sugar refineries, match, filigree, and paper factories. Pop. 300,000; province, pop. commune, about 1,120,000.