Luogo - Historical building

Loggia della Mercanzia O Loggia di Banchi

Where piazza Banchi, Genova

The Lodge of the Merchantes, scenically related to contemporary palace Di Negro and the church of San Pietro, is built in the square benches between 1589 and 1595 to provide the city with more and adapted space to the new business and merchant banking. The protagonists are the same that make the church: first designers Cantone, Ponsello and Ceresola the "Vannone", the other deputies to the factory that do raise the necessary funds by building thirteen new shops on the opposite side to the Lodge. The resolution, architectural work of Vannone, mistakenly attributed to Alessi, is a large pavilion supported by round arches on twin columns, transposition of the sixteenth-century Genoese medieval arcades. In '800 the lodge became the seat of the first Commodity Exchange and the Italian arches, designed by Resasco, are closed by glass, but at the beginning of the '900 missed its function for the construction of the Stock Exchange building in Piazza De Ferrari, new "financial center" of the city. After a long period of neglect, in 1991 it was launched a "National Competition of Ideas" to direct it to a venue for exhibitions and events, the first attempt to upgrade the historical center in view of the events of the Columbus '92, that will transform the entire port. After hosting exhibitions and small commercial activities of a temporary nature, from 2011 contains the Urban Center of the City of Genoa, a place dedicated to communication and discussion of the urban transformation of the city.

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