The marble terraces (1850)
In the foreground, the bulky building that from 1835 to 1885 separated the port from the city to demand the duties imposed for centuries on incoming goods. The novelty of the 19th century was the terrace, where ladies and gentlemen took walks to admire the industriousness of the port and the city from above: a self-referential landscape for Genoa the "Superba" (the Superb).
Painting by Carlo Bossoli, around 1860. Gigantography at the Magazzini del Cotone, showing the roof of the Customs buildings, the walking path of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie
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