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Barabino's Troughs
The
Barabino's Troughs,
almost unknown, represent a meaningfully popular leg of Genoa's history.
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Build in 1707 by the First Government of Democratic Republic of Liguria according to Barabino's project, not so far away from S. Maria dei Servi's Church, the Troughs have been for many years the meeting place of the population in one of the most inhabited zones of the city.
The complete distruction of the pre-existent neighbourhood,
which was articulated around
Via dei Servi
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and Via Madre di Dio, had forced in 1979 the displacement of the neo-classic building upon the new artificial crags drawn close to the hill of Sarzano.
The present location is therefore an effect of the urbanistic placing
of the zone around
Madre di
Dio Street.
For architectonic peculiarities and material qualities,
this building represents the most elegant and
A hanging in ashlar plaster goes on
in the hewn feigned-stone
of the pillars tapered in height
which support the arches.
The tympanum's cornices are in white statuary marble.
The frieze and the fillets are in mortar transfered on the plaster.
The fountain, in masonry, has its work plane in sandstone
fluted with delivery mouth worked in “grotesque”.
perfect structure of that genre in Genoa.
