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Genoa Sights

Cattedrale di San Lorenzo

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  • Address
    • Old City Piazza San Lorenzo
  • Hours
    • 09:00-12:30 & 15:30-19:00

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Lonely Planet review for Cattedrale di San Lorenzo

With its black-and-white-striped Gothic marble facade making it look a bit like a giant humbug, Genoa's Cattedrale di San Lorenzo is fronted by twisting columns and crouching lions. Consecrated in 1118, its two bell towers and cupola were added in the 16th century.

Inside the cathedral, above the central doorway, there's a great lunette with a painting of the Last Judgment, the work of an anonymous Byzantine painter of the early 14th century. Look out for the unexploded British bomb, which luckily failed to detonate when it hit the cathedral in 1941.

 

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