The bicoloured columns
The interior «with three naves; in the middle one there are eight columns, the first four are made of black and white marble alternating, the others, minus one towards the presbytery, are made of Egyptian granite all in their high trunk, the only example in Genoa ". (From a 1818 guide quoted by Poleggi, ed. Sagep 1969). Egyptian granite is Roman material, which came from local imperial monuments, reused in the first construction. The columns made of marble and promontory stone were added with the extensions of the late XII century.
The photo highlights the perfect geometry and the slender proportions, rather extraordinary in an architecture that is still very old, which is composed by Roman materials, and that is marked by almost 1000 years of intense city life.
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